diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf
index 924e119..345cf03 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf
+++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/openbmc-phosphor.conf
@@ -58,3 +58,9 @@
 KERNEL_FEATURES_remove_qemuall = " phosphor-gpio-keys"
 
 IMAGE_CLASSES_append = " image_types_phosphor"
+
+# OpenBMC uses a couple recipes from meta-virtualization
+# but we do not actually want any virtualization support
+# enabled on a BMC distribution.  Silence the emitted
+# warning.
+SKIP_META_VIRT_SANITY_CHECK = "1"