files: 0.869 device: 0.805 graphic: 0.793 network: 0.647 socket: 0.587 semantic: 0.543 vnc: 0.539 performance: 0.476 PID: 0.386 boot: 0.374 debug: 0.307 other: 0.266 KVM: 0.231 permissions: 0.110 Bad validate ELF MIPSel format Detail and temporary path: http://www.devttys0.com/2011/12/qemu-vs-sstrip/#comment-10161 To copy the information out of that web page for posterity: the problem is that we weren't able to execute ELF files in linux-user if they had had the section table stripped out of them. We fixed this in the way suggested in that web page, by simply not checking the section header size, since we don't care about the section headers when we load ELF files. This was fixed in commit d3606f07440ee2c2bebea2 in 2011.