diff --git a/Ports/qemu/package.sh b/Ports/qemu/package.sh
index 5197d46b0b3..ad8011b65d0 100755
--- a/Ports/qemu/package.sh
+++ b/Ports/qemu/package.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env -S bash ../.port_include.sh
+
+source version.sh
+
 port='qemu'
-version='7.2.0'
+version="${QEMU_VERSION}"
 useconfigure='true'
 configopts=(
     '--target-list=aarch64-softmmu,i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu'
@@ -20,8 +23,8 @@ depends=(
   'pixman'
   'SDL2'
 )
-files="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-${version}.tar.xz qemu-${version}.tar.xz 5b49ce2687744dad494ae90a898c52204a3406e84d072482a1e1be854eeb2157"
 auth_type='sha256'
+files="${QEMU_ARCHIVE_URL} ${QEMU_ARCHIVE} ${QEMU_ARCHIVE_SHA256SUM}"
 
 pre_patch() {
     # Disable tests (those need way more stuff than QEMU itself) by clearing the respective meson file.
diff --git a/Ports/qemu/version.sh b/Ports/qemu/version.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..40799127843
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Ports/qemu/version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+QEMU_VERSION="7.2.0"
+QEMU_ARCHIVE="qemu-${QEMU_VERSION}.tar.xz"
+QEMU_ARCHIVE_URL="https://download.qemu.org/${QEMU_ARCHIVE}"
+QEMU_ARCHIVE_SHA256SUM="5b49ce2687744dad494ae90a898c52204a3406e84d072482a1e1be854eeb2157"
diff --git a/Toolchain/BuildQemu.sh b/Toolchain/BuildQemu.sh
index ae1520ac1d2..03ff3733ffd 100755
--- a/Toolchain/BuildQemu.sh
+++ b/Toolchain/BuildQemu.sh
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ PREFIX="$DIR/Local/qemu"
 BUILD=$(realpath "$DIR/../Build")
 SYSROOT="$BUILD/Root"
 
-QEMU_VERSION=${QEMU_VERSION:="qemu-7.1.0"}
-QEMU_MD5SUM=${QEMU_MD5SUM:="3be5458a9171b4ec5220c65d5d52bdcf"}
+# shellcheck source=/dev/null
+source "${DIR}/../Ports/qemu/version.sh"
 
 echo PREFIX is "$PREFIX"
 echo SYSROOT is "$SYSROOT"
@@ -20,24 +20,21 @@ echo SYSROOT is "$SYSROOT"
 mkdir -p "$DIR/Tarballs"
 
 pushd "$DIR/Tarballs"
-    md5="$(md5sum $QEMU_VERSION.tar.xz | cut -f1 -d' ')"
-    if [ ! -e "$QEMU_VERSION.tar.xz" ] || [ "$md5" != "$QEMU_MD5SUM" ]; then
-        curl -C - -O "https://download.qemu.org/$QEMU_VERSION.tar.xz"
+    if [ ! -e "${QEMU_ARCHIVE}" ]; then
+        curl -C - -O "${QEMU_ARCHIVE_URL}"
     else
-        echo "Skipped downloading $QEMU_VERSION"
+        echo "Skipped downloading ${QEMU_ARCHIVE}"
     fi
 
-    md5="$(md5sum $QEMU_VERSION.tar.xz | cut -f1 -d' ')"
-    echo "qemu md5='$md5'"
-    if  [ "$md5" != "$QEMU_MD5SUM" ] ; then
-        echo "qemu md5 sum mismatching, please run script again."
-        rm -f $QEMU_VERSION.tar.xz
+    if ! sha256sum --status -c <(echo "${QEMU_ARCHIVE_SHA256SUM}" "${QEMU_ARCHIVE}"); then
+        echo "qemu sha256 sum mismatching, please run script again."
+        rm -f "${QEMU_ARCHIVE}"
         exit 1
     fi
 
     if [ ! -d "$QEMU_VERSION" ]; then
         echo "Extracting qemu..."
-        tar -xf "$QEMU_VERSION.tar.xz"
+        tar -xf "${QEMU_ARCHIVE}"
     else
         echo "Skipped extracting qemu"
     fi
@@ -61,9 +58,10 @@ fi
 echo Using $UI_LIB based UI
 
 pushd "$DIR/Build/qemu"
-    "$DIR"/Tarballs/$QEMU_VERSION/configure --prefix="$PREFIX" \
+    "$DIR"/Tarballs/qemu-"${QEMU_VERSION}"/configure --prefix="$PREFIX" \
                                             --target-list=aarch64-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu \
-                                            --enable-$UI_LIB || exit 1
+                                            --enable-$UI_LIB \
+                                            --enable-slirp || exit 1
     make -j "$MAKEJOBS" || exit 1
     make install || exit 1
 popd