diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
index 307a205cdc..8dee060338 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ do_configure_prepend_virtclass-native() {
 
     if [ "$libsdl" != 'yes' -o "$libgl" != 'yes' ]; then
        echo "You need libGL.so and libGLU.so to exist in your library path and the development headers for SDL installed to build qemu-native.
-       Ubuntu package names are: libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev and libsdl1.2-dev"
+       Ubuntu package names are: libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev and libsdl1.2-dev.
+       Fedora package names are: mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU SDL-devel."
        exit 1;
     fi
 }
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index ac5facfa21..c349de081f 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -406,7 +406,8 @@ test -e /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/libGL.so -a -e /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/libGLU.so && li
 
 if [ "$libgl" != 'yes' ]; then
     echo "You need libGL.so and libGLU.so to exist in your library path to run the QEMU emulator.
-    Ubuntu package names are: libgl1-mesa-dev and libglu1-mesa-dev."
+    Ubuntu package names are: libgl1-mesa-dev and libglu1-mesa-dev.
+    Fedora package names are: mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU."
     exit 1;
 fi