diff --git a/providers/ninefold-compute/src/test/java/org/jclouds/ninefold/compute/compute/NinefoldComputeServiceLiveTest.java b/providers/ninefold-compute/src/test/java/org/jclouds/ninefold/compute/compute/NinefoldComputeServiceLiveTest.java
index a1e5d2691f..4b8d540ac0 100644
--- a/providers/ninefold-compute/src/test/java/org/jclouds/ninefold/compute/compute/NinefoldComputeServiceLiveTest.java
+++ b/providers/ninefold-compute/src/test/java/org/jclouds/ninefold/compute/compute/NinefoldComputeServiceLiveTest.java
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 package org.jclouds.ninefold.compute.compute;
 
 import org.jclouds.cloudstack.compute.CloudStackComputeServiceLiveTest;
-import org.jclouds.compute.domain.ExecResponse;
-import org.jclouds.compute.domain.NodeMetadata;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
 /**
@@ -33,9 +31,4 @@ public class NinefoldComputeServiceLiveTest extends CloudStackComputeServiceLive
    public NinefoldComputeServiceLiveTest() {
       provider = "ninefold-compute";
    }
-
-   protected void checkResponseEqualsHostname(ExecResponse execResponse, NodeMetadata node1) {
-      // hostname is not predictable based on node metadata
-      assert execResponse.getOutput().trim().equals("ubuntu");
-   }
 }