This patches solves the issue for me: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/346018/
** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323001 Title: Netlink socket support for MIPS* Status in QEMU: New Bug description: It seems QEMU does not support Netlink socket support on MIPS* Trying to compile and run this simple program: #include <libaudit.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> int main() { int audit_fd = audit_open (); printf("fd is %d\n", audit_fd); printf("errno is %d\n", errno); return 0; } I receive the following output: $ ./test fd is -1 errno is 97 $ errno 97 is #define EAFNOSUPPORT 97 /* Address family not supported by protocol */ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1323001/+subscriptions