diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index f4b8ba13dbea..81393999cbc6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -557,7 +557,6 @@ VIRTUAL_ENVIRONMENT_FILES = \
 	test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/network/network2/network.xml \
 	test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/network/network3/network.xml \
 	test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/network/network4/network.xml \
-	test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/README \
 	test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/settings
 
 EXTRA_DIST += \
diff --git a/test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/README b/test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/README
deleted file mode 100644
index caa92da252b8..000000000000
--- a/test/nitsi/virtual-environment/basic/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Images for these test can be downloaded from:
-https://people.ipfire.org/~jschlag/nitsi-ipfire/virtual-environment/basic/
-
-You must decompress these images with 'unxz' and place them in:
-/var/lib/libvirt/images
-
-