I'm not on a Debian/Ubuntu-ish system, but extracting qemu-user-static_2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu6~ppa3_amd64.deb : data.tar.xz : usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
and testing with that binary: $ time usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /var/lib/archbuild/dbscripts@armv7h/luke/usr/bin/ldconfig --help Usage: ldconfig [OPTION...] ... <https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues>. real 0m0.068s user 0m0.067s sys 0m0.000s That is: LGTM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1740219 Title: static linux-user ARM emulation has several-second startup time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1740219/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs