QEMU

qemu mac segfault

Bug #821289 reported by lp-void
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Bug Description

qemu-0.14.1
./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,arm-softmmu
qemu(-system-(x86_64|arm))
> Segmentation fault: 11

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Joe Pintozzi (joseph-pintozzi) wrote :

I can reproduce this reliably when running

> qemu-system-arm -L . -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile -initrd initrd.gz -hda hda.img -m 256 -M versatilepb -append "desktop=lxde"

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Joe Pintozzi (joseph-pintozzi) wrote :

Ironically I just figured out how to fix this issue. It only segfaults when built with LLVM. If you installed with homebrew, run

>brew install qemu --use-gcc --force

To get a working version.

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Peter Maydell (pmaydell) wrote :

> It only segfaults when built with LLVM.

This was because of QEMU's use of a global-fixed-register variable. This usage has now been removed and QEMU builds and runs fine with LLVM as well as pure gcc.

Changed in qemu:
status: New → Fix Released
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