[SOLVED] AMD (3dnow) Processor emulation? Intel CPU on host.

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I have an old appliance (PBX system) that runs on an embedded system, AMD something

https://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm

My Proxmox host is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640.
I have imaged the boot disk and tried to boot the embedded system, and the embedded kernel complains there is no 3d now support on the cpu. I have tried to switch to various CPU profiles (Athlon/Phenom etc) but Proxmox complains the host doesn't support those features.

Is there any way to emulate a few processor features such as 3dnow, I'm not worried about speed of the emulation at the moment, just getting it booting, if I can figure it out I will recompile the kernel for it.

I would like to completely virtualize this box but I need to poke around at the internals in a vm for a bit.

I have seen a few patches here and there to emulate 3dnow etc but I have no idea how to enable this on Proxmox or if they are included or not. Thank you.
 
Nevermind, figured it out!

Solution:
Untick KVM Hardware virtualization and then the processor itself is emulated as well! :)
The image booted mostly.
 
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