diff --git a/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/tag_patches/3b6a2b6b7466f6dea53243900b7516c3f29027b7/no_patches.txt b/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/8.2.x/no_patches.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/packaging/qemu/patches/tag_patches/3b6a2b6b7466f6dea53243900b7516c3f29027b7/no_patches.txt
rename to tools/packaging/qemu/patches/8.2.x/no_patches.txt
diff --git a/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/tag_patches/b6ee1218e6c9b98a556841615dd10d094e648393/no_patches.txt b/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/tag_patches/b6ee1218e6c9b98a556841615dd10d094e648393/no_patches.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh b/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh
index e5ee8bb5a..852761877 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh
@@ -328,7 +328,11 @@ generate_qemu_options() {
 	# From Kata Containers 2.5.0-alpha2 all arches but powerpc have been
 	# using the new implementation of virtiofs daemon, which is not part
 	# of QEMU.
-	qemu_options+=(functionality:--disable-virtiofsd)
+	#
+	# qemu configure does not support virtiofsd if qemu version >= 8.0.0.
+        if ! gt_eq "${qemu_version}" "8.0.0" ; then
+		qemu_options+=(functionality:--disable-virtiofsd)
+        fi
 
 	qemu_options+=(functionality:--enable-virtfs)
 
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
index 5ed2d1ad9..7ed1b8995 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
 	    patch \
 	    python \
 	    python-dev \
+	    python3-venv \
 	    rsync \
 	    zlib1g-dev${DPKG_ARCH} && \
     if [ "${ARCH}" != s390x ]; then apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libpmem-dev${DPKG_ARCH}; fi && \
diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index a78f876be..3cc63531b 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ assets:
       tag: "b67b00e6b4c7831a3f5bc684bc0df7a9bfd1bd56-plus-TDX-v1.10"
 
     qemu-snp-experimental:
-      description: "QEMU with experimental SNP support (no UPM)"
+      description: "QEMU with experimental SNP support"
       url: "https://github.com/AMDESE/qemu"
-      tag: "3b6a2b6b7466f6dea53243900b7516c3f29027b7"
+      tag: "b6ee1218e6c9b98a556841615dd10d094e648393"
 
     stratovirt:
       description: "StratoVirt is an lightweight opensource VMM"