diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
index 10001c3e66..e2453dd8bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[libudev] = "--enable-libudev,--disable-libudev,eudev"
 PACKAGECONFIG[attr] = "--enable-attr,--disable-attr,attr,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[rbd] = "--enable-rbd,--disable-rbd,ceph,ceph"
 PACKAGECONFIG[vhost] = "--enable-vhost-net,--disable-vhost-net,,"
-PACKAGECONFIG[ust] = "--enable-trace-backend=ust,,lttng-ust,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[ust] = "--enable-trace-backends=ust,,lttng-ust,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pie] = "--enable-pie,--disable-pie,,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[seccomp] = "--enable-seccomp,--disable-seccomp,libseccomp"
 # libnfs is currently provided by meta-kodi