Comment 46 for bug 739785
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| Steve (svrusso1) wrote Re: qemu-i386 user mode on ARMv5 host fails (bash: fork: Invalid argument) | #46 |
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This bug also pertains to armv7l. I have a Debian chroot install on my Android phone, and was trying to do an i386 chroot within my chroot (want to run the i386 specific binaries included in the Android SDK).
I installed the qemu-user-static package (tried both v 0.14.1 and 0.15.0).
When putting qemu-i386-static in the usr/bin folder of my chroot, and trying to run `chroot .` I got the fork error mentioned above when executing any command-line programs. Incidentally-- it *did* work if I used `exec ls`, but obviously that would kill my chroot. I assume using exec just circumvented the fork() call.
I was able to native compile qemu 0.14.1 as --static, with the patch provided in #32 above, and I can confirm it works fine -- no fork error.
@Peter Maydell -- do you think you will get that patch incorporated into the main fork of QEMU? I imagine it becoming a bigger issue as more and more people start running full Linux distros on their ARM-based phones; especially as the mobile processors get faster.