diff --git a/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml b/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml
index 6679b0b73c9f1..6b037ef131a9f 100644
--- a/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
 		<flag name="static-user">Build the User targets as static binaries</flag>
 		<flag name="static">Build the User and Software MMU (system) targets as well as tools as static binaries</flag>
 		<flag name="systemtap">Enable SystemTap/DTrace tracing</flag>
-		<flag name="jemalloc">Enable jemalloc allocator support</flag>
 		<flag name="jpeg">Enable jpeg image support for the VNC console server</flag>
 		<flag name="png">Enable png image support for the VNC console server</flag>
 		<flag name="usb">Enable USB passthrough via <pkg>dev-libs/libusb</pkg></flag>