Index: qemu-0.9.0/Makefile
===================================================================
--- qemu-0.9.0.orig/Makefile	2007-02-22 11:32:09.000000000 +0100
+++ qemu-0.9.0/Makefile	2007-02-22 15:29:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -27,10 +27,14 @@
 ifndef CONFIG_DARWIN
 ifndef CONFIG_WIN32
 ifndef CONFIG_SOLARIS
+ifdef USE_LIBPOSIX_AIO
+LIBS+=-lposix-aio
+else
 LIBS+=-lrt
 endif
 endif
 endif
+endif
 
 all: $(TOOLS) $(DOCS) recurse-all
 
Index: qemu-0.9.0/Makefile.target
===================================================================
--- qemu-0.9.0.orig/Makefile.target	2007-02-22 11:32:09.000000000 +0100
+++ qemu-0.9.0/Makefile.target	2007-02-22 15:29:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -440,7 +440,11 @@
 ifndef CONFIG_DARWIN
 ifndef CONFIG_WIN32
 ifndef CONFIG_SOLARIS
-VL_LIBS=-lutil -lrt
+VL_LIBS=-lutil
+ifdef USE_LIBPOSIX_AIO
+VL_LIBS+=-lposix-aio
+endif
+VL_LIBS+=-lrt
 endif
 endif
 endif
Index: qemu-0.9.0/configure
===================================================================
--- qemu-0.9.0.orig/configure	2007-02-22 11:32:09.000000000 +0100
+++ qemu-0.9.0/configure	2007-02-22 11:32:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
 linux_user="no"
 darwin_user="no"
 build_docs="no"
+libposix_aio="no"
 uname_release=""
 
 # OS specific
@@ -254,6 +255,8 @@
   ;;
   --enable-uname-release=*) uname_release="$optarg"
   ;;
+  --enable-libposix-aio) libposix_aio="yes"
+  ;;
   esac
 done
 
@@ -302,6 +305,7 @@
 echo "  --fmod-lib               path to FMOD library"
 echo "  --fmod-inc               path to FMOD includes"
 echo "  --enable-uname-release=R Return R for uname -r in usermode emulation"
+echo "  --enable-libposix-aio    use libposix-aio instead of glibc aio"
 echo ""
 echo "NOTE: The object files are built at the place where configure is launched"
 exit 1
@@ -624,6 +628,7 @@
 echo "FMOD support      $fmod $fmod_support"
 echo "kqemu support     $kqemu"
 echo "Documentation     $build_docs"
+echo "libposix-aio      $libposix_aio"
 [ ! -z "$uname_release" ] && \
 echo "uname -r          $uname_release"
 
@@ -784,6 +789,8 @@
   echo "#define MAP_ANONYMOUS MAP_ANON" >> $config_h
   echo "#define _BSD 1" >> $config_h
 fi
+echo "USE_LIBPOSIX_AIO=yes" >> $config_mak
+echo "#define USE_LIBPOSIX_AIO 1" >> $config_h
 
 echo "#define CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE \"$uname_release\"" >> $config_h
 
Index: qemu-0.9.0/block-raw.c
===================================================================
--- qemu-0.9.0.orig/block-raw.c	2007-02-22 11:32:09.000000000 +0100
+++ qemu-0.9.0/block-raw.c	2007-02-22 16:52:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
     act.sa_handler = aio_signal_handler;
     sigaction(aio_sig_num, &act, NULL);
 
-#if defined(__GLIBC__) && defined(__linux__)
+#if defined(__GLIBC__) && defined(__linux__) && !defined(USE_LIBPOSIX_AIO)
     {
         /* XXX: aio thread exit seems to hang on RedHat 9 and this init
            seems to fix the problem. */