diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/reboot-timeout-enabled.err b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/reboot-timeout-enabled.err
deleted file mode 100644
index 317b293168..0000000000
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/reboot-timeout-enabled.err
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-unsupported configuration: reboot timeout is not supported by this QEMU binary
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index e6cbded920..ed1996578b 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1176,7 +1176,6 @@ mymain(void)
 
     DO_TEST("reboot-timeout-disabled", QEMU_CAPS_REBOOT_TIMEOUT);
     DO_TEST("reboot-timeout-enabled", QEMU_CAPS_REBOOT_TIMEOUT);
-    DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR_NOCAPS("reboot-timeout-enabled");
 
     DO_TEST("bios",
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_ISA_SERIAL);