diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/qu/quickemu/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/qu/quickemu/package.nix
index fcbc23b9bdf1..5b0c4417bfe0 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/qu/quickemu/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/qu/quickemu/package.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   lib,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchpatch,
   stdenv,
   makeWrapper,
   gitUpdater,
@@ -67,6 +68,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     hash = "sha256-sCoCcN6950pH33bRZsLoLc1oSs5Qfpj9Bbywn/uA6Bc=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "correctly-handle-version-10.0.0-of-qemu.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/commit/f25205f4513c4fa72be6940081c62e613d1fddc6.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-OAXGyhMVDwbUypEPj/eRnH0wZYaL9WLGjbyoobe20UY=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   postPatch = ''
     sed -i \
       -e '/OVMF_CODE_4M.secboot.fd/s|ovmfs=(|ovmfs=("${OVMFFull.firmware}","${OVMFFull.variables}" |' \