This seems to be a pretty basic question but I can't seem to find a good answer.

I am currently just following https://w00tsec.blogspot.ca/2013/09/analyzing-and-running-binaries-from.html to learn more about emulating with qemu.

Whats the advantages and disadvantages between:

sudo chroot . ./qemu-mips-static bin/busybox (example)

compared to following the instructions found here: https://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mips/

qemu-system-mips -M malta kernel 

Thanks in advance!

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