> > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to > simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a > performance penalty > if there is a way to "simulate" missing opcodes in the kernel - that would be great also. I dont care if there is a performace hit. I am looking for a way to run the 686 centos on a 486 machine. I was hoping I could just recompile the kernel as 486 and any libraries would not be using MMX/SSE etc... Looking for any solution. Jerry