I can confirm this problem, also running Edgy fully updates as of 02/Nov/07. However, in my case, running as root causes a busy loop in qemu leaving it unresponsive. Also CPU goes to 100% in kernel mode, which may imply that the problem is in the kqemu accelerator.
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