Scott, Could you pls. help to add this in our document? You know, different host os need different fix, so we decide to document it as know issue and let end user choose right one for themselves. Pls. see following background info, and let me know if need further details. Mark would provide fix for Fedora system... Thanks, edwin ============================================================= nVidia's proprietary OpenGL libraries are known to have compatibility issues with qemu, resulting in a segfault. Please uninstall these drivers or ensure the mesa libGL libraries precede nvidia's via LD_PRELOAD. You can detect if nVidia's libGL precedes mesa's by(poky-qemu also does this) user@machine$ ldd qemu-binary | grep -i nvidia If find something like libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 libnvidia-tls.so.260.19.06... Qemu is linked with nVidia's libGL, and likely to get segfault:( There are workarounds for different host system. On ubuntu, you can prepend following environment variable before qemu starting command to fall back to mesa's libGL LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so $LD_PRELOAD" qemu .....
The scripts themselves now warn about this problem.
Verified! Bug 649 requires these scripts and got fixed.