diff --git a/tests/vm/ubuntu.i386 b/tests/vm/ubuntu.i386
index 18b1ea2b72..f611bebdc9 100755
--- a/tests/vm/ubuntu.i386
+++ b/tests/vm/ubuntu.i386
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ class UbuntuX86VM(basevm.BaseVM):
 
     def build_image(self, img):
         cimg = self._download_with_cache(
-            "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release-20190605/ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-i386-disk1.img",
-            sha256sum="e30091144c73483822b7c27193e9d47346dd1064229da577c3fedcf943f7cfcc")
+            "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/bionic/release-20191114/ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-i386.img",
+            sha256sum="28969840626d1ea80bb249c08eef1a4533e8904aa51a327b40f37ac4b4ff04ef")
         img_tmp = img + ".tmp"
         subprocess.check_call(["cp", "-f", cimg, img_tmp])
         subprocess.check_call(["qemu-img", "resize", img_tmp, "50G"])