"-serial unix:" option of qemu-system-arm is broken in qemu 2.6.0 I found a bug of "-serial unix:PATH_TO_SOCKET" in qemu 2.6.0 (qemu 2.5.1 works fine). Occasionally, a part of the output of qemu disappears in the bug. It looks like following commit is the cause: char: ensure all clients are in non-blocking mode (Author: Daniel P. Berrange