I also had the "cpu exception", I found the following mailing list archive that seems to describe the same problem. http://www.gatago.com/linux/kernel/14721949.html
It included:- > I had the same problem and found out that disabling > address space randomization (echo 0 > > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space) solves this This command (executed AFTER "sudo -i" into root) prevented the cpu exception. Execution then continued until:- ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big see bug #53384 -- ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()! https://launchpad.net/bugs/52857 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs