diff --git a/build.changes b/build.changes
index e074ffd..077ca2d 100644
--- a/build.changes
+++ b/build.changes
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Tue Aug 21 08:56:05 UTC 2012 - adrian@suse.de
   * ignore prereqs for subpacks to be built
   * more Arch Linux support
   * new --vmdisk-clean switch
+- add recommends to qemu-linux-user
 
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 Thu Jul 19 07:47:23 UTC 2012 - adrian@suse.de
diff --git a/build.spec b/build.spec
index 8af9980..bc898fa 100644
--- a/build.spec
+++ b/build.spec
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Recommends:     perl(Time::Zone)
 Recommends:     perl(URI)
 Recommends:     perl(XML::Parser)
 Recommends:     bsdtar
+Recommends:     qemu-linux-user
 %endif
 
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1120 || ! 0%{?suse_version}