The problem reported above was the same up to and including qemu 0.15.0.
Meanwhile I found this on the LinuxFromScratch (LFS) bug tracker:
"Glibc-2.14 causes segfaults in SDL",
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2920
After applying their patch to GLIBC, qemu finally works again on the
It is a bit weird that www.qemu.org tells me to report my bugs on
launchpad, but replies to my bug report then appear ONLY on the
developer mailing list. How shall a lowly end-user know that he must
look there, too?
Anyway. On the developer mailing list, Markus Armbruster (Mon, 21 Feb
2011 09:00:2
Public bug reported:
I start qemu (Linux) from the same USB memory stick on several
computers. Up to and including qemu 0.12.5, I could use or not use
qemu's "-enable-kvm" command line parameter as appropriate for the
hardware, and qemu would run. In contrast, qemu 0.13.0 and 0.14.0
segfault if st
