diff --git a/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/package.json b/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/package.json
index 4123c858d..09257e670 100644
--- a/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/package.json
+++ b/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/package.json
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@
     "fs-extra": "^10.0.0",
     "get-stream": "^6.0.0",
     "rimraf": "^3.0.0",
-    "tmp": "^0.2.1",
-    "validate-with-xmllint": "^1.2.0"
+    "tmp": "^0.2.1"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "build": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production babel --source-maps --out-dir=dist/ src/",
diff --git a/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/src/ova-generate.integ.spec.js b/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/src/ova-generate.integ.spec.js
index 10702db91..a1e09ae81 100644
--- a/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/src/ova-generate.integ.spec.js
+++ b/packages/xo-vmdk-to-vhd/src/ova-generate.integ.spec.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* eslint-env jest */
-import { validateXMLWithXSD } from 'validate-with-xmllint'
+import { spawn } from 'child_process'
 import { createReadStream, createWriteStream, readFile } from 'fs-extra'
 import execa from 'execa'
 import path from 'path'
@@ -21,6 +21,34 @@ afterEach(async () => {
   process.chdir(initialDir)
   await pFromCallback(cb => rimraf(tmpDir, cb))
 })
+// from https://github.com/aautio/validate-with-xmllint/blob/master/src/index.ts
+// that way the test will fail if user does not have xml-lint installed on its os
+// but the XO install will succeed
+
+const execXmllint = (input, args) =>
+  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const xmllint = spawn('xmllint', args)
+
+    // stdout and stderr are both captured to be made available if the promise rejects
+    let output = ''
+    xmllint.stdout.on('data', chunk => (output += chunk.toString()))
+    xmllint.stderr.on('data', chunk => (output += chunk.toString()))
+
+    // Any errors cause a rejection
+    xmllint.on('error', reject)
+
+    xmllint.on('close', code => {
+      if (code === 0) {
+        return resolve()
+      }
+      return reject(
+        new Error(`xmllint exited with code ${code} when executed with xmllint ${args.join(' ')}:\n${output}`)
+      )
+    })
+
+    // pipe input to process
+    xmllint.stdin.end(input)
+  })
 
 test('An ova file is generated correctly', async () => {
   const inputRawFileName1 = 'random-data1.raw'
@@ -69,7 +97,13 @@ test('An ova file is generated correctly', async () => {
     const xml = await readFile('vm1.ovf', { encoding: 'utf-8' })
 
     try {
-      await validateXMLWithXSD(xml, path.join(__dirname, 'ova-schema', 'dsp8023_1.1.1.xsd'))
+      await execXmllint(xml, [
+        '--schema',
+        path.join(__dirname, 'ova-schema', 'dsp8023_1.1.1.xsd'),
+        '--noout',
+        '--nonet',
+        '-',
+      ])
       await execa('tar', ['xf', ovaFileName1, vmdkDiskName1])
       await execa('tar', ['xf', ovaFileName1, vmdkDiskName2])
       await execa('qemu-img', ['check', vmdkDiskName1])