architecture: 0.782 device: 0.768 semantic: 0.708 kernel: 0.668 network: 0.667 socket: 0.658 risc-v: 0.642 TCG: 0.622 ppc: 0.617 debug: 0.612 vnc: 0.604 VMM: 0.574 register: 0.569 files: 0.560 hypervisor: 0.550 PID: 0.549 permissions: 0.537 boot: 0.505 i386: 0.486 x86: 0.484 performance: 0.476 graphic: 0.448 user-level: 0.425 mistranslation: 0.417 arm: 0.398 peripherals: 0.387 KVM: 0.342 virtual: 0.325 assembly: 0.246 GCC -O2 causes segfaults unless compiled without optimizations, no system may be ran except the default with -kvm-enabled I had to modify config-host.mak and remove -O2 from CFLAGS to be able to work without kvm. GCC 4.4.4 qemu-0.14.1 ***NOTE: this has been an issue for several versions. Sorry, that there were no reactions to this ticket when you've opened it. Since both, GCC 4.4 and QEMU 0.14 are quite outdated nowadays, and AFAIK nobody complains about this issue with newer versions anymore, I think we can close this bug nowadays. If you still have this problem with the latest version of QEMU, please feel free to open this ticket again.