>> Do you think it will ever get fixed in a reasonable amount of time (or ever)
>Well, it's on my list of things to look at, but generally my focus is the current (ARMv7) architecture, and fixing ARMv5 only bugs is lower priority. But there's a pretty good chance I'll get to it somewhere in the next few months. Would be awesome to get x86 binaries working on my SheevaPlug. I also think that ARMv5 is more common in devices such as NAS, where it is more feasible to run an emulator like this. Thanks devs! Waiting eagerly for the fix! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739785 Title: qemu-i386 user mode on ARMv5 host fails (bash: fork: Invalid argument) Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Good time of day everybody, I have been trying to make usermode qemu on ARM with plugapps (archlinux) with archlinux i386 chroot to work. 1. I installed arch linux in a virtuabox and created a chroot for it with mkarchroot. Transferred it to my pogo plug into /i386/ 2. I comiled qemu-i386 static and put it into /i386/usr/bin/ ./configure --static --disable-blobs --disable-system --target-list=i386-linux-user make 3. I also compiled linux kernel 2.6.38 with CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y and installed it. uname -a Linux Plugbox 2.6.38 #4 PREEMPT Fri Mar 18 22:19:10 CDT 2011 armv5tel Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board GNU/Linux 4. Added the following options into /etc/rc.local /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc /bin/mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc echo ':qemu-i386:M::\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03\x00:\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xfe\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfb\xff\xff\xff:/usr/bin/qemu-i386:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register 5. Also copied ld-linux.so.3 (actually ld-2.13.so because ld- linux.so.3 is a link to that file) from /lib/ to /i386/lib/ 6.Now i chroot into /i386 and I get this: [root@Plugbox i386]# chroot . [II aI hnve ao n@P /]# pacman -Suy bash: fork: Invalid argument 7.I also downloaded linux-user-test-0.3 from qemu website and ran the test: [root@Plugbox linux-user-test-0.3]# make ./qemu-linux-user.sh [qemu-i386] ../qemu-0.14.0/i386-linux-user/qemu-i386 -L ./gnemul/qemu-i386 i386/ls -l dummyfile BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 210: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed! make: *** [test] Error 127
