files: 0.869 device: 0.805 graphic: 0.793 network: 0.647 kernel: 0.594 socket: 0.587 semantic: 0.543 vnc: 0.539 user-level: 0.530 mistranslation: 0.478 performance: 0.476 risc-v: 0.462 architecture: 0.458 TCG: 0.446 VMM: 0.430 ppc: 0.416 register: 0.409 PID: 0.386 boot: 0.374 arm: 0.349 debug: 0.307 peripherals: 0.280 KVM: 0.231 hypervisor: 0.204 virtual: 0.128 x86: 0.127 i386: 0.111 permissions: 0.110 assembly: 0.012 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.