There is a [http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page QEMU] userspace emulator available to execute AArch64 applications on a an x86_64 machine and kernel. This program interprets aarch64 binaries and translate operating system calls to the underlying x86_64 kernel, enabling many aarch64 binaries to be executed with good performance. However, because it does not emulate the full system, some capabilities are not available: in particular, debugging software such as gdb and strace will not work.