diff --git a/tests/hostside/java/com/android/microdroid/test/MicrodroidTestCase.java b/tests/hostside/java/com/android/microdroid/test/MicrodroidTestCase.java
index 78fb53b..c4ea80a 100644
--- a/tests/hostside/java/com/android/microdroid/test/MicrodroidTestCase.java
+++ b/tests/hostside/java/com/android/microdroid/test/MicrodroidTestCase.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.nullValue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
@@ -393,53 +392,6 @@
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void testTombstonesAreBeingForwarded() throws Exception {
-        // This test requires rooting. Skip on user builds where rooting is impossible.
-        final String buildType = getDevice().getProperty("ro.build.type");
-        assumeTrue("userdebug".equals(buildType) || "eng".equals(buildType));
-
-        // Note this test relies on logcat values being printed by tombstone_transmit on
-        // and the reeceiver on host (virtualization_service)
-        final String configPath = "assets/vm_config.json"; // path inside the APK
-        final String cid =
-                startMicrodroid(
-                        getDevice(),
-                        getBuild(),
-                        APK_NAME,
-                        PACKAGE_NAME,
-                        configPath,
-                        /* debug */ true,
-                        minMemorySize(),
-                        Optional.of(NUM_VCPUS),
-                        Optional.of(CPU_AFFINITY));
-        adbConnectToMicrodroid(getDevice(), cid);
-        waitForBootComplete();
-        runOnMicrodroidRetryingOnFailure(
-                MICRODROID_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_MILLIS, MICRODROID_ADB_CONNECT_MAX_ATTEMPTS, "true");
-        // We need root permission to write to /data/tombstones/
-        rootMicrodroid();
-        // Write a test tombstone file in /data/tombstones
-        runOnMicrodroid("echo -n \'Test tombstone in VM with 34 bytes\'"
-                    + "> /data/tombstones/transmit.txt");
-        // check if the tombstone have been tranferred from VM. This is a bit flaky - increasing
-        // timeout to 30s can result in SIGKILL inside microdroid due to logcat memory issue
-        CommandRunner android = new CommandRunner(getDevice());
-        android.runWithTimeout(
-                15000,
-                "grep",
-                "-m",
-                "1",
-                "'tombstone_transmit.microdroid:.*data/tombstones/transmit.txt'",
-                LOG_PATH);
-
-        // Confirm that tombstone is received (from host logcat)
-        assertNotEquals(runOnHost("adb", "-s", getDevice().getSerialNumber(),
-                            "logcat", "-d", "-e",
-                            "Received 34 bytes from guest & wrote to tombstone file.*"),
-                "");
-    }
-
-    @Test
     public void testMicrodroidBoots() throws Exception {
         final String configPath = "assets/vm_config.json"; // path inside the APK
         final String cid =