linux-user: Unable to run ARM binaries on Aarch64 Download a ARM package from https://packages.debian.org/sid/busybox-static Here tested with: busybox-static_1.30.1-4_armel.deb $ file busybox.armel busybox.armel: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=12cf572e016bafa240e113b57b3641e94b837f37, stripped $ qemu-aarch64 --version qemu-aarch64 version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.14) $ qemu-aarch64 busybox.armel busybox.armel: Invalid ELF image for this architecture $ qemu-aarch64 -cpu cortex-a7 busybox.armel unable to find CPU model 'cortex-a7' Also reproduced with commit 33d609990621dea6c7d056c86f707b8811320ac1, while the aarch64_cpus[] array contains Aarch64 CPUs, the arm_cpus[] array is empty: $ gdb -q aarch64-linux-user/qemu-aarch64 (gdb) p aarch64_cpus $1 = {{name = 0x1fe4e8 "cortex-a57", initfn = 0x109bc0 , class_init = 0x0}, {name = 0x1fe508 "cortex-a53", initfn = 0x109a10 , class_init = 0x0}, {name = 0x1fe518 "cortex-a72", initfn = 0x109868 , class_init = 0x0}, {name = 0x218020 "max", initfn = 0x109d70 , class_init = 0x0}, {name = 0x0, initfn = 0x0, class_init = 0x0}} (gdb) p arm_cpus $2 = {{name = 0x0, initfn = 0x0, class_init = 0x0}}