diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/boot-menu-enable-with-timeout.err b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/boot-menu-enable-with-timeout.err
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ac2abf11b..0000000000
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/boot-menu-enable-with-timeout.err
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-unsupported configuration: splash timeout is not supported by this QEMU binary
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index 2a4f3ca2f0..1a2b4fda8c 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1070,7 +1070,6 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST_NOCAPS("boot-menu-enable");
     DO_TEST("boot-menu-enable-with-timeout",
             QEMU_CAPS_SPLASH_TIMEOUT);
-    DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR_NOCAPS("boot-menu-enable-with-timeout");
     DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR("boot-menu-enable-with-timeout-invalid",
                         QEMU_CAPS_SPLASH_TIMEOUT);
     DO_TEST_NOCAPS("boot-menu-disable");