diff --git a/Config.mk b/Config.mk
index bcfaa25ca6..4918a74ab6 100644
--- a/Config.mk
+++ b/Config.mk
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ ETHERBOOT_NICS ?= rtl8139 8086100e
 # CONFIG_QEMU ?= `pwd`/$(XEN_ROOT)/../qemu-xen.git
 CONFIG_QEMU ?= $(QEMU_REMOTE)
 
-QEMU_TAG ?= e052bfcd0f2b0776f1f39f8282446ba8601bde82
+QEMU_TAG ?= xen-4.4.2-rc2
 # Mon Feb 2 16:49:59 2015 +0000
 # cirrus: fix an uninitialized variable
 
diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
index 21f6fb4e59..7947de8e98 100644
--- a/xen/Makefile
+++ b/xen/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # All other places this is stored (eg. compile.h) should be autogenerated.
 export XEN_VERSION       = 4
 export XEN_SUBVERSION    = 4
-export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .2-rc1$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
+export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .2-rc2$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
 export XEN_FULLVERSION   = $(XEN_VERSION).$(XEN_SUBVERSION)$(XEN_EXTRAVERSION)
 -include xen-version