diff --git a/src/aleph/vm/controllers/qemu/QEMU.md b/src/aleph/vm/controllers/qemu/QEMU.md
index e79a6c8b6..66b63e75b 100644
--- a/src/aleph/vm/controllers/qemu/QEMU.md
+++ b/src/aleph/vm/controllers/qemu/QEMU.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ These are installable via
 
 This branch depends on the version 0.4.1 of `aleph-message` that add the `hypervisor` field. The easiest way is to install tha version using `pip install -e .`
 
-To create a local venv use the `--system-site-packages` option so it can acess nftables 
+To create a local venv use the `--system-site-packages` option so it can access nftables 
 
 ## To test launching a VM instance