boot: 0.943 instruction: 0.931 device: 0.914 socket: 0.894 network: 0.892 graphic: 0.891 semantic: 0.886 mistranslation: 0.885 vnc: 0.831 other: 0.752 KVM: 0.732 assembly: 0.653 qemu-system-arm stops with SIGSEGV in helper_gvec_eq16 Segmentation fault when trying to start FreeBSD-arm system with qemu-system-arm (version 4.1.1 on Fedora 31) Commandline: gdb -q --args /bin/qemu-system-arm \ -name FreeBSD12,debug-threads=on \ -m 1536 -machine virt -smp 2 \ -M virt,highmem=off -serial mon:stdio -monitor telnet::45452,server,nowait \ -machine virt,accel=tcg,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,gic-version=2 \ -overcommit mem-lock=off -no-reboot -device virtio-rng-device \ -bios u-boot-qemu.bin \ -drive file=FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-arm-armv7-CUBIEBOARD2.img,if=none,id=drive0,format=raw \ -device ich9-ahci,id=ahci -device ide-drive,drive=drive0,bus=ahci.0 Results: .... Mounting local filesystems:. Thread 4 "CPU 1/TCG" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fffcedfe700 (LWP 53608)] 0x00005555558d9332 in helper_gvec_eq16 (d=0x5555566748d8, a=0x5555566748e0, b=0x5555566748d0, desc=0) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64/accel/tcg/tcg-runtime-gvec.c:948 948 DO_CMP2(16) Tested different versions of qemu. qemu-3.0.1 worked, but qemu-3.1.1 failed with the same error. I infer from the traceback that your host does not support AVX1. Fix posted: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1238946/ Yes, the CPU is of the last generation without AVX. And yes, the patch worked for me. Thank you! Fixed here: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=43d1ccd2a02f