diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index f22e0bc34b..8efa880aa5 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ env:
     DEBIAN_NAME: "debian-13"
 
     # Image identifiers
-    IMAGE_SUFFIX: "c20231116t174419z-f39f38d13"
+    IMAGE_SUFFIX: "c20231206t225809z-f39f38d13"
+
 
     # EC2 images
     FEDORA_AMI: "fedora-aws-${IMAGE_SUFFIX}"
diff --git a/contrib/cirrus/win-podman-machine-main.ps1 b/contrib/cirrus/win-podman-machine-main.ps1
index bee9250c7d..4fc3fc85c2 100644
--- a/contrib/cirrus/win-podman-machine-main.ps1
+++ b/contrib/cirrus/win-podman-machine-main.ps1
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 Set-Location "$ENV:CIRRUS_WORKING_DIR\repo"
 
+$GvTargetDir = "C:\Program Files\Redhat\Podman\"
+
+#Expand-Archive -Path "podman-remote-release-windows_amd64.zip" -DestinationPath $GvTargetDir
+
+New-Item -Path $GvTargetDir -ItemType "directory"
+Copy-Item "bin/windows/gvproxy.exe" -Destination $GvTargetDir
+
 Write-Host "Saving selection of CI env. vars."
 # Env. vars will not pass through win-sess-launch.ps1
 Get-ChildItem -Path "Env:\*" -include @("PATH", "Chocolatey*", "CIRRUS*", "TEST_*", "CI_*") `
diff --git a/pkg/machine/e2e/config_test.go b/pkg/machine/e2e/config_test.go
index 60e9187a5a..87b1d00e1b 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/e2e/config_test.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/e2e/config_test.go
@@ -234,3 +234,17 @@ func isVmtype(vmType machine.VMType) bool {
 func isWSL() bool {
 	return isVmtype(machine.WSLVirt)
 }
+
+func getFCOSDownloadLocation(p machine.VirtProvider) string {
+	dd, err := p.NewDownload("")
+	if err != nil {
+		Fail("unable to create new download")
+	}
+
+	fcd, err := dd.GetFCOSDownload(defaultStream)
+	if err != nil {
+		Fail("unable to get virtual machine image")
+	}
+
+	return fcd.Location
+}
diff --git a/pkg/machine/e2e/config_unix_test.go b/pkg/machine/e2e/config_unix_test.go
index 027021ca43..24c57ee65f 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/e2e/config_unix_test.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/e2e/config_unix_test.go
@@ -6,21 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 
 	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/machine"
-	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
 )
 
 func getDownloadLocation(p machine.VirtProvider) string {
-	dd, err := p.NewDownload("")
-	if err != nil {
-		Fail("unable to create new download")
-	}
-
-	fcd, err := dd.GetFCOSDownload(defaultStream)
-	if err != nil {
-		Fail("unable to get virtual machine image")
-	}
-
-	return fcd.Location
+	return getFCOSDownloadLocation(p)
 }
 
 func pgrep(n string) (string, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/machine/e2e/config_windows_test.go b/pkg/machine/e2e/config_windows_test.go
index 9fa63cd884..c47bda043f 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/e2e/config_windows_test.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/e2e/config_windows_test.go
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ import (
 
 const podmanBinary = "../../../bin/windows/podman.exe"
 
-func getDownloadLocation(_ machine.VirtProvider) string {
+func getDownloadLocation(p machine.VirtProvider) string {
+	if p.VMType() == machine.HyperVVirt {
+		return getFCOSDownloadLocation(p)
+	}
 	fd, err := wsl.NewFedoraDownloader(machine.WSLVirt, "", defaultStream.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		Fail("unable to get WSL virtual image")
diff --git a/pkg/machine/e2e/machine_test.go b/pkg/machine/e2e/machine_test.go
index c7400d2040..ae89e839a3 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/e2e/machine_test.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/e2e/machine_test.go
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ var _ = BeforeSuite(func() {
 		downloadLocation = getDownloadLocation(testProvider)
 		// we cannot simply use OS here because hyperv uses fcos; so WSL is just
 		// special here
-		if testProvider.VMType() != machine.WSLVirt {
-			downloadLocation = getDownloadLocation(testProvider)
-		}
 	}
 
 	compressionExtension := fmt.Sprintf(".%s", testProvider.Compression().String())