diff --git a/base/comps/components-full.toml b/base/comps/components-full.toml
index f0a22383e21..60ec8c3f8c7 100644
--- a/base/comps/components-full.toml
+++ b/base/comps/components-full.toml
@@ -4739,7 +4739,6 @@
 [components.qcustomplot]
 [components.qdbm]
 [components.qdox]
-[components.qemu]
 [components.qhull]
 [components.qjson]
 [components.qpdf]
diff --git a/base/comps/qemu/qemu.comp.toml b/base/comps/qemu/qemu.comp.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7dc370a72f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/qemu/qemu.comp.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[components.qemu]
+
+# Disable Xen support — not applicable to Azure Linux's Hyper-V/KVM environment.
+# The upstream spec enables Xen when %fedora is set (which it is on our builders),
+# so we must explicitly override have_xen back to 0.
+[[components.qemu.overlays]]
+description = "Disable Xen support - not needed for Azure Linux (Hyper-V/KVM only)"
+type = "spec-search-replace"
+regex = '%global have_xen 1'
+replacement = '%global have_xen 0'