diff --git a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/dependencies.yaml b/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/dependencies.yaml
index 57780d27600..d5c7e64113e 100644
--- a/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/dependencies.yaml
+++ b/pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/dependencies.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 lima: 0.21.0.rd2
-limaAndQemu: 1.31.3
+qemu: 0.0.0.20241009
 socketVMNet: 1.1.5
 alpineLimaISO:
   isoVersion: 0.2.39.rd4
diff --git a/scripts/dependencies/lima.ts b/scripts/dependencies/lima.ts
index a9f4540e20a..89a78dd3a77 100644
--- a/scripts/dependencies/lima.ts
+++ b/scripts/dependencies/lima.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { download, downloadTarGZ, getResource } from '../lib/download';
 import {
   DownloadContext, Dependency, AlpineLimaISOVersion, findChecksum, getOctokit, GitHubDependency, getPublishedReleaseTagNames, GitHubRelease,
 } from 'scripts/lib/dependencies';
+import { simpleSpawn } from 'scripts/simple_process';
 
 /**
  * rcompareVersions implementation for version strings that look like 0.1.2.rd3????.
@@ -140,44 +141,26 @@ export class Lima implements Dependency, GitHubDependency {
   }
 }
 
-export class LimaAndQemu implements Dependency, GitHubDependency {
-  name = 'limaAndQemu';
-  githubOwner = 'rancher-sandbox';
-  githubRepo = 'lima-and-qemu';
+export class Qemu implements Dependency, GitHubDependency {
+  name = 'qemu';
+  githubOwner = 'mook-as';
+  githubRepo = 'qemu-packaging';
 
   async download(context: DownloadContext): Promise<void> {
     const baseUrl = `https://github.com/${ this.githubOwner }/${ this.githubRepo }/releases/download`;
-    let platform: string = context.platform;
+    const arch = process.env.M1 ? 'aarch64' : 'x86_64';
 
-    if (platform === 'darwin') {
-      platform = 'macos';
-      if (process.env.M1) {
-        platform = `macos-aarch64`;
-      }
-    }
-    const url = `${ baseUrl }/v${ context.versions.limaAndQemu }/lima-and-qemu.${ platform }.tar.gz`;
+    const url = `${ baseUrl }/v${ context.versions.qemu }/qemu-${ arch }.tar.gz`;
     const expectedChecksum = (await getResource(`${ url }.sha512sum`)).split(/\s+/)[0];
     const limaDir = path.join(context.resourcesDir, context.platform, 'lima');
-    const tarPath = path.join(context.resourcesDir, context.platform, `lima-and-qemu.v${ context.versions.limaAndQemu }.tgz`);
+    const tarPath = path.join(context.resourcesDir, context.platform, `qemu.v${ context.versions.qemu }.tgz`);
 
     await download(url, tarPath, {
       expectedChecksum, checksumAlgorithm: 'sha512', access: fs.constants.W_OK,
     });
     await fs.promises.mkdir(limaDir, { recursive: true });
 
-    const child = childProcess.spawn('/usr/bin/tar',
-      ['-xf', tarPath, '--exclude', 'lima*', '--exclude', 'vde/bin', '--exclude', 'vde/lib', '--exclude', 'socket_vmnet'],
-      { cwd: limaDir, stdio: 'inherit' });
-
-    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
-      child.on('exit', (code, signal) => {
-        if (code === 0) {
-          resolve();
-        } else {
-          reject(new Error(`Lima-and-QEMU extract failed with ${ code || signal }`));
-        }
-      });
-    });
+    await simpleSpawn('/usr/bin/tar', ['-xf', tarPath], { cwd: limaDir });
   }
 
   async getAvailableVersions(): Promise<string[]> {
diff --git a/scripts/lib/dependencies.ts b/scripts/lib/dependencies.ts
index 0af8ce08e5e..9cfff1e9da0 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/dependencies.ts
+++ b/scripts/lib/dependencies.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export type AlpineLimaISOVersion = {
 
 export type DependencyVersions = {
   lima: string;
-  limaAndQemu: string;
+  qemu: string;
   socketVMNet: string;
   alpineLimaISO: AlpineLimaISOVersion;
   WSLDistro: string;
diff --git a/scripts/postinstall.ts b/scripts/postinstall.ts
index 48de7f50553..0c9d0faa785 100644
--- a/scripts/postinstall.ts
+++ b/scripts/postinstall.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import os from 'os';
 import path from 'path';
 
 import * as goUtils from 'scripts/dependencies/go-source';
-import { Lima, LimaAndQemu, SocketVMNet, AlpineLimaISO } from 'scripts/dependencies/lima';
+import { Lima, Qemu, SocketVMNet, AlpineLimaISO } from 'scripts/dependencies/lima';
 import { MobyOpenAPISpec } from 'scripts/dependencies/moby-openapi';
 import { SudoPrompt } from 'scripts/dependencies/sudo-prompt';
 import { ExtensionProxyImage, WSLDistroImage } from 'scripts/dependencies/tar-archives';
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ const userTouchedDependencies = [
 // Dependencies that are specific to unix hosts.
 const unixDependencies = [
   new Lima(),
-  new LimaAndQemu(),
+  new Qemu(),
   new AlpineLimaISO(),
 ];
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ async function downloadDependencies(items: DependencyWithContext[]): Promise<voi
     });
     const pending = Array.from(running).filter(v => !done.has(v));
 
-    await Promise.any([timeout, ...pending.map(v => promises[v])]);
+    await Promise.race([timeout, ...pending.map(v => promises[v])]);
   }
   abortSignal.onabort = null;