syscall: 0.588 runtime: 0.279 instruction: 0.133 qemu-user clone syscall fails qemu-user fails to emulate clone() (https://linux.die.net/man/2/clone). The architecture doesn't seem to matter, tho I've mostly been testing aarch64. Attached is clone_test.c that demonstrates the problem. Running it natively looks like this: $ bin/clone_test The variable was 9 clone returned 4177: 0 Success The variable is now 42 However, running it via qemu looks like: $ qemu-aarch64-static --version qemu-aarch64 version 5.2.0 (v5.2.0) Copyright (c) 2003-2020 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers $ qemu-aarch64-static ./clone_test The variable was 9 clone returned -1: 22 Invalid argument The variable is now 9