(In reply to Claudio Fontana from comment #3) > does running a simple AArch64 binary with qemu user mode work? (no > container..?) > It does. In fact, using the stock qemu-aarch64-binfmt interpreter, as provided by our qemu-linux-user package: $ cat pippo.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a=7; printf("a=%d\n", a); return a++; } $ uname -a Linux Palanthas 5.1.16-1-default #1 SMP Wed Jul 3 12:37:47 UTC 2019 (2af8a22) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ file pippo-static pippo-static: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=f0839e4cd8142d9b85cb41d3cac9afc4b82403ed, for GNU/Linux 3.7.0, with debug_info, not stripped $ ./pippo-static ; echo "pippo-static returned $?" a=7 pippo-static returned 7