diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_1.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_1.2.0.bb
index 191ee48..dcf998a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_1.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_1.2.0.bb
@@ -29,6 +29,20 @@ do_configure_prepend_virtclass-nativesdk() {
 		sed -i 's/-lX11//g' Makefile.target
 	fi
 }
+
+# The following fragment will create a wrapper for qemu-mips user emulation
+# binary in order to work around a segmentation fault issue. Basically, by
+# default, the reserved virtual address space for 32-on-64 bit is set to 4GB.
+# This will trigger a MMU access fault in the virtual CPU. With this change,
+# the qemu-mips works fine.
+# IMPORTANT: This piece needs to be removed once the root cause is fixed!
+inherit utils
+do_install_append() {
+	create_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/qemu-mips \
+		QEMU_RESERVED_VA=0x0
+}
+# END of qemu-mips workaround
+
 do_configure_prepend_virtclass-native() {
 	# Undo the -lX11 added by linker-flags.patch, don't assume that host has libX11 installed
 	sed -i 's/-lX11//g' Makefile.target