diff --git a/launch/src/opendev_launch/launch_node.py b/launch/src/opendev_launch/launch_node.py
index 3260e73cb6..630a94f456 100755
--- a/launch/src/opendev_launch/launch_node.py
+++ b/launch/src/opendev_launch/launch_node.py
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ def bootstrap_server(server, key, name, volume_device, keep,
     ssh_client = utils.ssh_connect(ip, 'root', ssh_kwargs, timeout=timeout)
 
     cpuinfo = ssh_client.ssh('cat /proc/cpuinfo', quiet=True)[1]
-    if "sse4_2" not in cpuinfo:
+    machineinfo = ssh_client.ssh('uname -m', quiet=True)[1]
+    if "x86_64" in machineinfo and "sse4_2" not in cpuinfo:
         raise Exception("CPU does not support x86-64-v2 (sse4_2)")
 
     cpucount = 0