diff --git a/docs/dev/README.rst b/docs/dev/README.rst
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@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ The system tests are run using this command::
 
   $ nix-build --attr system-tests
 
-The system tests boot QEMU VMs which prevents them from running on CI at this time.
 The build requires > 10 GB of disk space,
 and the VMs might be timing out on slow or busy machines.
 If you run into timeouts,