diff --git a/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc b/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc
index 26504138..7eb2ac4b 100644
--- a/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc
+++ b/recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc
@@ -842,6 +842,7 @@ export LDFLAGS=""
 # conflicts with -mno-sse so instead we strip -mfpmath=sse instead of
 # patching the build to be ok with this
 TUNE_CCARGS := "${@oe.utils.str_filter_out('-mfpmath=sse', '${TUNE_CCARGS}', d)}"
+TUNE_CCARGS := "${@oe.utils.str_filter_out('-msse4.2', '${TUNE_CCARGS}', d)}"
 
 # Supply the full set of compiler flags via the tool variables
 # Yocto supplys _FORTIFY_SOURCE via CC/CPP/CXX but optimization -O via C*FLAGS