systemd-nspawn is still using binfmt which is how Linux tries to read ELF files, and what you really want when executing other architectures is to teach binfmt

systemd-nspawn is still using binfmt which is how Linux tries to read ELF files, and what you really want when executing other architectures is to teach binfmt about qemu. nspawn doesn't do anything additional here, but might be easier for most new sysadmins (sorry... "devops/platform/cloud engineers"). More info (from 2016 so it could be out of date): https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2016-02-07-systemd-nspawn-for-fun-and-wel/ https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2016-02-07-systemd-nspawn-for-f...