diff --git a/Dockerfile.arm64 b/Dockerfile.arm64
index a1ce39cb6..d13c66760 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.arm64
+++ b/Dockerfile.arm64
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ FROM lsiobase/alpine.python.arm64:3.7
 
 # set python to use utf-8 rather than ascii.
 ENV PYTHONIOENCODING="UTF-8"
-ENV QEMU_VERSION v2.11.0
 
 ADD qemu-aarch64-static /usr/bin