diff --git a/qemu/.footprint b/qemu/.footprint
index 3c7bf7584..67e93c343 100644
--- a/qemu/.footprint
+++ b/qemu/.footprint
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man8/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man8/qemu-nbd.8.gz
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/qemu/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/QEMU,tcx.bin
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/acpi-dsdt.aml
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/bamboo.dtb
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/bios.bin
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/ar
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/bepo
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/common
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/cz
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/da
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/de
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/de-ch
@@ -98,5 +100,5 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/qemu/keymaps/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/vgabios-stdvga.bin
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/vgabios-vmware.bin
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/qemu/vgabios.bin
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/var/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/var/run/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	var/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	var/run/
diff --git a/qemu/.md5sum b/qemu/.md5sum
index 06f99b44e..52b8f467a 100644
--- a/qemu/.md5sum
+++ b/qemu/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3a897d722457c5a895cd6ac79a28fda0  qemu-1.6.1.tar.bz2
+32893941d40d052a5e649efcf06aca06  qemu-1.7.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/qemu/Pkgfile b/qemu/Pkgfile
index 69fdf6b27..38fe436d3 100644
--- a/qemu/Pkgfile
+++ b/qemu/Pkgfile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Nice to have: libseccomp libiscsi libusb usbredir
  
 name=qemu
-version=1.6.1
+version=1.7.0
 release=1
 source=(http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-$version.tar.bz2)
 
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ build() {
       --disable-docs \
       --libexecdir=/usr/lib/qemu \
       --disable-gtk \
+      --localstatedir=/var \
       --target-list=x86_64-linux-user,i386-linux-user,i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
 
   # fix include issues with nspr