diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index 3ee365c..a33f7a8 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -673,8 +673,11 @@ static void do_info_version_print(Monitor *mon, const QObject *data)
 
     qdict = qobject_to_qdict(data);
 
-    monitor_printf(mon, "%s%s\n", qdict_get_str(qdict, "qemu"),
-                                  qdict_get_str(qdict, "package"));
+    monitor_printf(mon, "%" PRId64 ".%" PRId64 ".%" PRId64 "%s\n",
+		   qdict_get_int(qdict, "major"),
+		   qdict_get_int(qdict, "minor"),
+		   qdict_get_int(qdict, "micro"),
+		   qdict_get_str(qdict, "package"));
 }
 
 /**
@@ -682,17 +685,33 @@ static void do_info_version_print(Monitor *mon, const QObject *data)
  *
  * Return a QDict with the following information:
  *
- * - "qemu": QEMU's version
- * - "package": package's version
+ * - "major": QEMU's major version
+ * - "minor": QEMU's minor version
+ * - "micro": QEMU's micro version
+ * - "package": QEMU packager's version
+ *
+ * The first three values are guarenteed to be
+ * integers. The final 'package' value is a string
+ * in an arbitrary packager specific format
  *
  * Example:
  *
- * { "qemu": "0.11.50", "package": "" }
+ * { "major": 0, "minor": 11, "micro": 5, "package": "" }
  */
 static void do_info_version(QObject **ret_data)
 {
-    *ret_data = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'qemu': %s, 'package': %s }",
-                                   QEMU_VERSION, QEMU_PKGVERSION);
+    const char *version = QEMU_VERSION;
+    int major = 0, minor = 0, micro = 0;
+    char *tmp;
+
+    major = strtol(version, &tmp, 10);
+    tmp++;
+    minor = strtol(tmp, &tmp, 10);
+    tmp++;
+    micro = strtol(tmp, &tmp, 10);
+
+    *ret_data = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'major': %d, 'minor': %d, 'micro': %d, 'package': %s }",
+                                   major, minor, micro, QEMU_PKGVERSION);
 }
 
 static void do_info_name_print(Monitor *mon, const QObject *data)