Since you're talking about a pre-compiled binary, I assume you wanted to open this bug against Ubuntu's QEMU package, not against the QEMU project?
** Project changed: qemu => qemu (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553999 Title: OpenGL support is disabled Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -display sdl,gl=on -vga qxl SDL1 display code has no opengl support. Please recompile qemu with SDL2, using ./configure --enable-sdl --with-sdlabi=2.0 qemu-system-x86_64: OpenGL support is disabled Can you please recompile qemu with support for opengl. The -display mode allows for opengl support. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1553999/+subscriptions