diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3e12b820bfd..84213eadb28 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ matrix:
         - sudo ssh default sudo podman build -t test /vagrant
         # Mounting /lib/modules into the container is necessary as CRIU wants to load (via iptables) additional modules
         - sudo ssh default sudo podman run --privileged --cgroupns=private -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro test make localunittest
+        # cgroupv2+systemd: test on vagrant host itself as we need systemd
+        - sudo ssh default -t 'cd /vagrant && sudo make localintegration RUNC_USE_SYSTEMD=yes'
   allow_failures:
     - go: tip
 
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 165b078018d..aba0c0cd717 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
     v.cpus = 2
   end
   config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
-    dnf install -y podman
+    cat << EOF | dnf -y shell
+config install_weak_deps: False
+update
+install podman make golang-go libseccomp-devel bats jq
+ts run
+EOF
+    dnf clean all
   SHELL
 end
diff --git a/tests/integration/events.bats b/tests/integration/events.bats
index b3e6315b555..8f2f81a23d0 100644
--- a/tests/integration/events.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/events.bats
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ function teardown() {
 
 @test "events --stats" {
   # XXX: currently cgroups require root containers.
-  requires root
+  # TODO: support cgroup v2 memory.events
+  requires root cgroups_v1
 
   # run busybox detached
   runc run -d --console-socket $CONSOLE_SOCKET test_busybox
@@ -28,7 +29,8 @@ function teardown() {
 
 @test "events --interval default " {
   # XXX: currently cgroups require root containers.
-  requires root
+  # TODO: support cgroup v2 memory.events
+  requires root cgroups_v1
 
   # run busybox detached
   runc run -d --console-socket $CONSOLE_SOCKET test_busybox
@@ -55,7 +57,8 @@ function teardown() {
 
 @test "events --interval 1s " {
   # XXX: currently cgroups require root containers.
-  requires root
+  # TODO: support cgroup v2 memory.events
+  requires root cgroups_v1
 
   # run busybox detached
   runc run -d --console-socket $CONSOLE_SOCKET test_busybox
@@ -81,7 +84,8 @@ function teardown() {
 
 @test "events --interval 100ms " {
   # XXX: currently cgroups require root containers.
-  requires root
+  # TODO: support cgroup v2 memory.events
+  requires root cgroups_v1
 
   # run busybox detached
   runc run -d --console-socket $CONSOLE_SOCKET test_busybox