diff --git a/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/9.1.x/no_patches.txt b/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/9.1.x/no_patches.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/tag_patches/v9.1.2/no_patches.txt b/tools/packaging/qemu/patches/tag_patches/v9.1.2/no_patches.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh b/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh
index f88536dec5..6fe9aeb56a 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh
@@ -222,9 +222,6 @@ generate_qemu_options() {
 
 	# Disabled options
 
-	# Disable block migration in the main migration stream
-	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-live-block-migration)
-
 	# braille support not required
 	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-brlapi)
 
@@ -397,6 +394,23 @@ generate_qemu_options() {
 	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-vhdx)
 	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-hv-balloon)
 
+	# Disable various features based on the qemu_version
+	if gt_eq "${qemu_version}" "9.1.0" ; then
+		# Disable Query Processing Library support
+		qemu_options+=(size:--disable-qpl)
+		# Disable UADK Library support
+		qemu_options+=(size:--disable-uadk)
+		# Disable syscall buffer debugging support
+		qemu_options+=(size:--disable-debug-remap)
+
+	fi
+
+	# Disable gio support
+	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-gio)
+	# Disable libdaxctl part of ndctl support
+	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-libdaxctl)
+	qemu_options+=(size:--disable-oss)
+
 	#---------------------------------------------------------------------
 	# Enabled options
 
@@ -409,6 +423,7 @@ generate_qemu_options() {
 
 	# Support Linux AIO (native)
 	qemu_options+=(size:--enable-linux-aio)
+	qemu_options+=(size:--enable-linux-io-uring)
 
 	# Support Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD)
 	[ -z "${static}" ] && qemu_options+=(functionality:--enable-rbd)
@@ -427,15 +442,14 @@ generate_qemu_options() {
 	# for that architecture
 	if [ "$arch" == x86_64 ]; then
 		qemu_options+=(speed:--enable-avx2)
-		qemu_options+=(speed:--enable-avx512f)
-		# According to QEMU's nvdimm documentation: When 'pmem' is 'on' and QEMU is
-		# built with libpmem support, QEMU will take necessary operations to guarantee
-		# the persistence of its own writes to the vNVDIMM backend.
-		qemu_options+=(functionality:--enable-libpmem)
+		qemu_options+=(speed:--enable-avx512bw)
 	else
 		qemu_options+=(speed:--disable-avx2)
-		qemu_options+=(functionality:--disable-libpmem)
 	fi
+	# We're disabling pmem support, it is heavilly broken with
+	# Ubuntu's static build of QEMU
+	qemu_options+=(functionality:--disable-libpmem)
+
 	# Enable libc malloc_trim() for memory optimization.
 	qemu_options+=(speed:--enable-malloc-trim)
 
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
index f8e477f07a..7a910958f8 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2020 Ant Group
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-FROM ubuntu:20.04
+FROM ubuntu:22.04
 
 # CACHE_TIMEOUT: date to invalid cache, if the date changes the image will be rebuild
 # This is required to keep build dependencies with security fixes.
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
 
 RUN if [ "${ARCH}" != "$(uname -m)" ]; then sed -i 's/^deb/deb [arch=amd64]/g' /etc/apt/sources.list && \
     dpkg --add-architecture "${DPKG_ARCH#:}" && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main restricted" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-updates main restricted" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-updates universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-updates multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
-    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list; fi
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy main restricted" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy-updates main restricted" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy-updates universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy-updates multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+    echo "deb [arch=${DPKG_ARCH#:}] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list; fi
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y \
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
 	    libpixman-1-dev${DPKG_ARCH} \
 	    libselinux1-dev${DPKG_ARCH} \
 	    libtool${DPKG_ARCH} \
+	    liburing-dev${DPKG_ARCH} \
 	    make \
 	    ninja-build \
 	    pkg-config${DPKG_ARCH} \
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
 	    python3 \
 	    python3-dev \
 	    python3-venv \
+	    python3-tomli \
 	    rsync \
 	    zlib1g-dev${DPKG_ARCH} && \
     if [ "${ARCH}" != s390x ]; then apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libpmem-dev${DPKG_ARCH}; fi && \
@@ -69,10 +71,3 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     if [ "${ARCH}" != "$(uname -m)" ]; then apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y gcc-"${GCC_ARCH}"-linux-gnu; fi && \
     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/
 
-RUN git clone  https://github.com/axboe/liburing/ ~/liburing && \
-    cd ~/liburing && \
-    git checkout tags/liburing-2.1 && \
-    GCC_ARCH="${ARCH}" && if [ "${ARCH}" = "ppc64le" ]; then GCC_ARCH="powerpc64le"; fi && \
-    if [ "${ARCH}" != "$(uname -m)" ]; then PREFIX="${GCC_ARCH}-linux-gnu"; fi && \
-    ./configure --cc=${GCC_ARCH}-linux-gnu-gcc --cxx=${GCC_ARCH}-linux-gnu-cpp --prefix=/usr/${PREFIX}/ && \
-    make && make install && ldconfig
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-base-qemu.sh b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-base-qemu.sh
index 4a8f5a3c70..7271894943 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-base-qemu.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-base-qemu.sh
@@ -59,9 +59,7 @@ ${container_engine} pull ${container_image} || ("${container_engine}" build \
 	# No-op unless PUSH_TO_REGISTRY is exported as "yes"
 	push_to_registry "${container_image}")
 
-"${container_engine}" run \
-	--rm \
-	-i \
+"${container_engine}" run --rm -i \
 	--env BUILD_SUFFIX="${build_suffix}" \
 	--env PKGVERSION="${PKGVERSION}" \
 	--env QEMU_DESTDIR="${qemu_destdir}" \
@@ -71,7 +69,9 @@ ${container_engine} pull ${container_image} || ("${container_engine}" build \
 	--env HYPERVISOR_NAME="${HYPERVISOR_NAME}" \
 	--env QEMU_VERSION_NUM="${qemu_version}" \
 	--env ARCH="${ARCH}" \
-	-v "${repo_root_dir}:/root/kata-containers" \
+	--user "$(id -u)":"$(id -g)" \
+	-w "${PWD}" \
+	-v "${repo_root_dir}:${repo_root_dir}" \
 	-v "${PWD}":/share "${container_image}" \
-	bash -c "/root/kata-containers/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-qemu.sh"
+	bash -c "${qemu_builder}"
 
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-qemu.sh b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-qemu.sh
index cab5f251b1..15d60a6bb7 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-qemu.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-qemu.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-kata_packaging_dir="/root/kata-containers/tools/packaging"
+script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+
+kata_packaging_dir="${script_dir}/../.."
 kata_packaging_scripts="${kata_packaging_dir}/scripts"
 
 kata_static_build_dir="${kata_packaging_dir}/static-build"
diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index 0691915e6a..591cff0a20 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ assets:
     qemu:
       description: "VMM that uses KVM"
       url: "https://github.com/qemu/qemu"
-      version: "v8.2.4"
-      tag: "v8.2.4"
+      version: "v9.1.2"
+      tag: "v9.1.2"
       # Do not include any non-full release versions
       # Break the line *without CR or space being appended*, to appease
       # yamllint, and note the deliberate ' ' at the end of the expression.