qemu seems to lack support for pid namespace. # Version qemu-4.0.0 # commands used to launch qemu-aarch64 in user mode. printf '%s\n' ':qemu-aarch64:M::\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\xb7\x00:\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff\xff:/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64:'"${QEMU_BINFMT_FLAGS}" >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register > sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64 $RPI/usr/bin > sudo chroot $RPI /bin/ksh -l # host Gentoo Linux amd64 # Guest Gentoo Linux aarch64 # The problem that I have "emerge" program fails due to the error, "qemu: qemu_thread_create: Invalid argument". "emerge" is Gentoo's package manager that compiles and installs packages. # How to reproduce the issue Execute unshare --pid -- echo hello world or python -c "import portage.process; portage.process.spawn(['echo', 'hello', 'world'], unshare_pid=True)"