i386: 0.949
x86: 0.926
graphic: 0.903
user-level: 0.857
architecture: 0.797
device: 0.795
network: 0.688
performance: 0.686
register: 0.618
semantic: 0.600
PID: 0.584
socket: 0.569
boot: 0.534
vnc: 0.504
files: 0.489
permissions: 0.487
ppc: 0.461
peripherals: 0.452
debug: 0.431
mistranslation: 0.410
arm: 0.381
risc-v: 0.356
TCG: 0.319
kernel: 0.309
VMM: 0.304
KVM: 0.136
virtual: 0.123
hypervisor: 0.094
assembly: 0.080
--------------------
user-level: 0.941
x86: 0.852
hypervisor: 0.652
virtual: 0.456
i386: 0.053
debug: 0.053
TCG: 0.039
register: 0.028
files: 0.025
network: 0.007
performance: 0.006
kernel: 0.005
PID: 0.003
device: 0.002
semantic: 0.002
assembly: 0.002
VMM: 0.001
socket: 0.001
architecture: 0.001
risc-v: 0.001
peripherals: 0.001
ppc: 0.001
boot: 0.001
KVM: 0.000
permissions: 0.000
graphic: 0.000
vnc: 0.000
mistranslation: 0.000
arm: 0.000

qemu-user fails to run rpcgen (i386, x86_64)

Confirmed on qemu current development tree (git commit aa29141). While trying to run eglibc's rpcgen from native system by qemu-user, I get an error:

qemu-x86_64 /usr/bin/rpcgen -c /dev/null 
fork: Invalid argument

I am running a Debian Wheezy system and rpcgen comes from libc-dev-bin. Just in case I am attaching my rpcgen binaries from i386 and x86_64 systems.

Very similar problem was mentioned on the QEMU forum on February 2007, so I guess it might be a known issue. Nevertheless, I was unable to find any information about bug reports, fixes nor workarounds for it so I'm reporting it here.



This should be fixed in QEMU 1.6.