diff --git a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-in.xml b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-in.xml
index 636accf054..95eca028e9 100644
--- a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-in.xml
+++ b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-in.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <domstatus state='running' reason='booted' pid='15433'>
   <taint flag='high-privileges'/>
-  <monitor path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-4-upstream/monitor.sock' json='1' type='unix'/>
+  <monitor path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-4-upstream/monitor.sock' type='unix'/>
   <vcpus>
     <vcpu id='0' pid='15449'/>
     <vcpu id='1' pid='15450'/>
diff --git a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-tls-in.xml b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-tls-in.xml
index 2cd6c9a5e9..2e37184715 100644
--- a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-tls-in.xml
+++ b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/migration-out-nbd-tls-in.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <domstatus state='running' reason='booted' pid='68472'>
   <taint flag='high-privileges'/>
-  <monitor path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-3-upstream/monitor.sock' json='1' type='unix'/>
+  <monitor path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-3-upstream/monitor.sock' type='unix'/>
   <namespaces>
     <mount/>
   </namespaces>
diff --git a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/upgrade-in.xml b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/upgrade-in.xml
index 7fa56429f4..6e00bb5ddf 100644
--- a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/upgrade-in.xml
+++ b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/upgrade-in.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <domstatus state='running' reason='booted' pid='195139'>
-  <monitor path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-upstream/monitor.sock' json='1' type='unix'/>
+  <monitor path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-upstream/monitor.sock' type='unix'/>
   <namespaces>
     <mount/>
   </namespaces>