i386: 0.883 graphic: 0.676 TCG: 0.641 x86: 0.611 assembly: 0.586 device: 0.585 semantic: 0.580 files: 0.510 mistranslation: 0.510 architecture: 0.466 user-level: 0.466 performance: 0.417 PID: 0.379 socket: 0.335 ppc: 0.334 virtual: 0.331 network: 0.320 peripherals: 0.310 hypervisor: 0.294 permissions: 0.280 vnc: 0.279 debug: 0.258 register: 0.247 arm: 0.169 risc-v: 0.165 boot: 0.154 VMM: 0.104 kernel: 0.093 KVM: 0.051 tcg-target.inc.c:3495:no such instruction: `xgetbv' While building QEMU on Mac OS 10.6.8 I saw this error message: tag-target.inc.c:3495:no such instruction: `xgetbv' In the file tcg/i386/tcg-target.inc.c at line 3495 is where the issue is located. This is the problem code: asm ("xgetbv" : "=a" (xcrl), "=d" (xcrh) : "c" (0)); https://github.com/asmjit/asmjit/issues/78 According to the above link, another project also experienced this problem on Mac OS X. The fix was to replace the name of the instruction with the encoded form '.byte 0x0F, 0x01, 0xd0'. Host info: Mac OS 10.6.8 GCC 5.2.0 Additional information: This may be a gcc issue. I have compiled QEMU on Mac OS 10.12 and didn't experience any issues. The compiler used was Apple's clang. The exact commit that causes this problem is this: commit 770c2fc7bb70804ae9869995fd02dadd6d7656ac tcg/i386: Add vector operations This has been fixed here: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=1019242af11400252