[arghwhat]

This is _actually_ a fork. A fork is a separate repository sharing history with another.

The GitHub UI's concept of a "fork" is unrelated to Git. GitHub doesn't detect you made a proper fork if you don't use its API or UI to do so, and requires contacting customer support to change it.

Not worth the hazzle as it provides no benefit.

[detaro]

Also, QEMU upstream isn't on Github, so the notion is even more pointless.

[seoaeu]

QEMU does have an official mirror on github (https://github.com/qemu/qemu) so I don't think it is that unreasonable