diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 66faf85bc4..261b54eefe 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-02-16  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
+
+	PR gdb/9734:
+	* remote-sim.c (gdbsim_create_inferior): Call error() when
+	sim_create_inferior() fails.
+
 2012-02-16  Josh Matthews  <josh@joshmatthews.net>
 
 	* machoread.c: Initialize nbr_syms to avoid warnings-as-errors failure.
diff --git a/gdb/remote-sim.c b/gdb/remote-sim.c
index 2a586e5e80..ee73cce47c 100644
--- a/gdb/remote-sim.c
+++ b/gdb/remote-sim.c
@@ -641,7 +641,10 @@ gdbsim_create_inferior (struct target_ops *target, char *exec_file, char *args,
     }
   else
     argv = NULL;
-  sim_create_inferior (sim_data->gdbsim_desc, exec_bfd, argv, env);
+
+  if (sim_create_inferior (sim_data->gdbsim_desc, exec_bfd, argv, env)
+      != SIM_RC_OK)
+    error (_("Unable to create sim inferior."));
 
   inferior_ptid = sim_data->remote_sim_ptid;
   inferior_appeared (current_inferior (), ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));