diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 8d1465158a..2c2c859ee0 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1560,7 +1560,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-unittest2-remove-argparse.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-waitress-fix-tests.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/pypy3-7.3.1-fix-tests.patch		\
-  %D%/packages/patches/qemu-build-info-manual.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/qemu-glibc-2.27.patch 			\
   %D%/packages/patches/qpdfview-qt515-compat.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/qrcodegen-cpp-make-install.patch		\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/qemu-build-info-manual.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/qemu-build-info-manual.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d57b26ea00..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/qemu-build-info-manual.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
-From 07303a0a4daa83a0555ac4abad7a5d65584307ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:28:19 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH] build: Build and install the info manual.
-
-Take advantage of the Sphinx texinfo backend to generate a QEMU info
-manual.  The texinfo format allows for more structure and info readers
-provide more advanced navigation capabilities compared to manpages
-readers.
-
-* configure (infodir): Add the --infodir option, which allows
-configuring the directory under which the info manuals are installed.
-* docs/index.rst: Include the top level documents to prevent
-warnings (treated as errors by sphinx-build).
-* Makefile (sphinxdocs-info, $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/QEMU.texi)): New targets.
-(info): Depend on sphinxdocs-info.
-(install-doc): Install the info manual.
----
- Makefile       | 13 +++++++++++--
- configure      |  7 +++++++
- docs/index.rst |  2 ++
- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 13dd708c..da78612d 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -864,12 +864,14 @@ endef
- # Note that we deliberately do not install the "devel" manual: it is
- # for QEMU developers, and not interesting to our users.
- .PHONY: install-sphinxdocs
--install-sphinxdocs: sphinxdocs
-+install-sphinxdocs: sphinxdocs sphinxdocs-info
- 	$(call install-manual,interop)
- 	$(call install-manual,specs)
- 	$(call install-manual,system)
- 	$(call install-manual,tools)
- 	$(call install-manual,user)
-+	$(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(infodir)"
-+	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/QEMU.info "$(DESTDIR)$(infodir)"
- 
- install-doc: $(DOCS) install-sphinxdocs
- 	$(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)"
-@@ -1067,6 +1069,13 @@ sphinxdocs: $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/devel/index.html \
-             $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/tools/index.html \
-             $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/user/index.html
- 
-+# Build the complete info manual.
-+.PHONE: sphinxdocs-info
-+sphinxdocs-info: $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/QEMU.info
-+
-+$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/QEMU.texi: $(call manual-deps,*) $(wildcard $(SRC_PATH)/docs/*.rst)
-+	$(call build-manual,,texinfo)
-+
- # Canned command to build a single manual
- # Arguments: $1 = manual name, $2 = Sphinx builder ('html' or 'man')
- # Note the use of different doctree for each (manual, builder) tuple;
-@@ -1126,7 +1135,7 @@ docs/interop/qemu-ga-qapi.texi: qga/qapi-generated/qga-qapi-doc.texi
- 	@cp -p $< $@
- 
- html: docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.html sphinxdocs
--info: docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.info docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.info
-+info: docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.info docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.info sphinxdocs-info
- pdf: docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.pdf docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.pdf
- txt: docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.txt docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.txt
- 
-diff --git a/configure b/configure
-index 2acc4d14..3691bd2e 100755
---- a/configure
-+++ b/configure
-@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ LDFLAGS_SHARED="-shared"
- modules="no"
- module_upgrades="no"
- prefix="/usr/local"
-+infodir="\${prefix}/share/info"
- mandir="\${prefix}/share/man"
- datadir="\${prefix}/share"
- firmwarepath="\${prefix}/share/qemu-firmware"
-@@ -987,6 +988,7 @@ if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
-     LIBS="-liberty $LIBS"
-   fi
-   prefix="c:/Program Files/QEMU"
-+  infodir="\${prefix}"
-   mandir="\${prefix}"
-   datadir="\${prefix}"
-   qemu_docdir="\${prefix}"
-@@ -1087,6 +1089,8 @@ for opt do
-     static="yes"
-     QEMU_PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS="--static $QEMU_PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS"
-   ;;
-+  --infodir=*) infodir="$optarg"
-+  ;;
-   --mandir=*) mandir="$optarg"
-   ;;
-   --bindir=*) bindir="$optarg"
-@@ -1780,6 +1784,7 @@ Advanced options (experts only):
-   --smbd=SMBD              use specified smbd [$smbd]
-   --with-git=GIT           use specified git [$git]
-   --static                 enable static build [$static]
-+  --infodir=PATH           install info manual in PATH
-   --mandir=PATH            install man pages in PATH
-   --datadir=PATH           install firmware in PATH$confsuffix
-   --docdir=PATH            install documentation in PATH$confsuffix
-@@ -6836,6 +6841,7 @@ echo "include directory $(eval echo $includedir)"
- echo "config directory  $(eval echo $sysconfdir)"
- if test "$mingw32" = "no" ; then
- echo "local state directory   $(eval echo $local_statedir)"
-+echo "Info manual directory   $(eval echo $infodir)"
- echo "Manual directory  $(eval echo $mandir)"
- echo "ELF interp prefix $interp_prefix"
- else
-@@ -7059,6 +7065,7 @@ echo "bindir=$bindir" >> $config_host_mak
- echo "libdir=$libdir" >> $config_host_mak
- echo "libexecdir=$libexecdir" >> $config_host_mak
- echo "includedir=$includedir" >> $config_host_mak
-+echo "infodir=$infodir" >> $config_host_mak
- echo "mandir=$mandir" >> $config_host_mak
- echo "sysconfdir=$sysconfdir" >> $config_host_mak
- echo "qemu_confdir=$qemu_confdir" >> $config_host_mak
-diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
-index 763e3d04..4f155b51 100644
---- a/docs/index.rst
-+++ b/docs/index.rst
-@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Welcome to QEMU's documentation!
- .. toctree::
-    :maxdepth: 2
-    :caption: Contents:
-+   :glob:
- 
-    system/index
-    user/index
-@@ -16,3 +17,4 @@ Welcome to QEMU's documentation!
-    interop/index
-    specs/index
-    devel/index
-+   *
--- 
-2.28.0
-
diff --git a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
index 8da57cf6ab..ba8797a09c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
   #:use-module (gnu packages nettle)
   #:use-module (gnu packages networking)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages ninja)
   #:use-module (gnu packages onc-rpc)
   #:use-module (gnu packages package-management)
   #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
@@ -133,15 +134,14 @@
 (define-public qemu
   (package
     (name "qemu")
-    (version "5.1.0")
+    (version "5.2.0")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (string-append "https://download.qemu.org/qemu-"
                                   version ".tar.xz"))
                (sha256
                 (base32
-                 "1rd41wwlvp0vpialjp2czs6i3lsc338xc72l3zkbb7ixjfslw5y9"))
-              (patches (search-patches "qemu-build-info-manual.patch"))
+                 "1g0pvx4qbirpcn9mni704y03n3lvkmw2c0rbcwvydyr8ns4xh66b"))
               (modules '((guix build utils)))
               (snippet
                '(begin
@@ -157,9 +157,9 @@
                     (("^([[:blank:]]*)target_ifreq_size[[:blank:]]=.*$" _ indent)
                      (string-append indent "target_ifreq_size = thunk_type_size(ifreq_max_type, 0);")))
                   #t))))
-     (outputs '("out" "doc"))            ;4.7 MiB of HTML docs
-     (build-system gnu-build-system)
-     (arguments
+    (outputs '("out" "doc"))            ;5.3 MiB of HTML docs
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
      `(;; FIXME: Disable tests on i686 to work around
        ;; <https://bugs.gnu.org/40527>.
        #:tests? ,(or (%current-target-system)
@@ -204,30 +204,28 @@
                 (string-append match "9")))))
          (add-after 'unpack 'disable-unusable-tests
            (lambda _
-             (substitute* "tests/Makefile.include"
+             (substitute* "tests/meson.build"
                ;; Comment out the test-qga test, which needs /sys and
                ;; fails within the build environment.
-               (("check-unit-.* tests/test-qga" all)
+               (("tests.*test-qga.*$" all)
                 (string-append "# " all))
                ;; Comment out the test-char test, which needs networking and
                ;; fails within the build environment.
-               (("check-unit-.* tests/test-char" all)
-                (string-append "# " all)))
-             (substitute* "tests/qtest/Makefile.include"
-               ;; Disable the following test, which triggers a crash on some
-               ;; x86 CPUs (see https://issues.guix.info/43048 and
-               ;; https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1896263).
-               (("check-qtest-i386-y \\+= bios-tables-test" all)
+               (("'test-char':.*$" all)
                 (string-append "# " all)))
              #t))
-         (add-after 'patch-source-shebangs 'patch-/bin/sh-references
+         (add-after 'patch-source-shebangs 'patch-embedded-shebangs
            (lambda _
              ;; Ensure the executables created by these source files reference
              ;; /bin/sh from the store so they work inside the build container.
              (substitute* '("block/cloop.c" "migration/exec.c"
                             "net/tap.c" "tests/qtest/libqtest.c")
                (("/bin/sh") (which "sh")))
+             (substitute* "tests/qemu-iotests/check"
+               (("#!/usr/bin/env python3")
+                (string-append "#!" (which "python3"))))
              #t))
+         ;; XXX ./configure is being re-run at beginning of build phase...
          (replace 'configure
            (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs (configure-flags '())
                      #:allow-other-keys)
@@ -236,14 +234,9 @@
              (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
                (setenv "SHELL" (which "bash"))
 
-               ;; While we're at it, patch for tests.
-               (substitute* "tests/qemu-iotests/check"
-                 (("#!/usr/bin/env python3")
-                  (string-append "#!" (which "python3"))))
-
                ;; Ensure config.status gets the correct shebang off the bat.
                ;; The build system gets confused if we change it later and
-               ;; attempts to re-run the whole configury, and fails.
+               ;; attempts to re-run the whole configuration, and fails.
                (substitute* "configure"
                  (("#!/bin/sh")
                   (string-append "#!" (which "sh"))))
@@ -318,6 +311,7 @@ exec smbd $@")))
                      ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
                      ("python-wrapper" ,python-wrapper)
                      ("python-sphinx" ,python-sphinx)
+                     ("ninja" ,ninja)
                      ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
     (home-page "https://www.qemu.org")
     (synopsis "Machine emulator and virtualizer")
