[Qemu-devel] [Bug 739785] Re: qemu-i386 user mode on ARMv5 host fails (bash: fork: Invalid argument)

[Peter Maydell]

I think you should be able to work around this with:
  echo 2 >/proc/cpu/alignment

which makes unaligned accesses fault and the kernel fix them up. This
will be slower than if qemu wasn't generating unaligned accesses in the
first place but it should at least make things run. (echo 0 ... will
give you the original behaviour back.)

(I have an armv5 system running now.)

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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:
  address@hidden i386]# chroot .
  [II aI hnve ao address@hidden /]# pacman -Suy
  bash: fork: Invalid argument

  7.I also downloaded linux-user-test-0.3 from qemu website and ran the test:
  address@hidden 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

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