diff --git a/pkg/machine/apple/vfkit-rest.go b/pkg/machine/apple/vfkit-rest.go
index 8045fd4c91..78caa3dabe 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/apple/vfkit-rest.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/apple/vfkit-rest.go
@@ -6,43 +6,21 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/url"
-	"strings"
-	"syscall"
 )
 
 // This code is adapted from github.com/crc-org/vfkit/pkg/rest/rest.go as of vkit v0.6.0.
 // We don’t want to import that directly because it imports an enormous dependency tree.
 
-// see `man unix`:
-// UNIX-domain addresses are variable-length filesystem pathnames of at most 104 characters.
-func maxSocketPathLen() int {
-	var sockaddr syscall.RawSockaddrUnix
-	// sockaddr.Path must end with '\0', it's not relevant for go strings
-	return len(sockaddr.Path) - 1
-}
-
-// This is intended to be equivalent to github.com/crc-org/vfkit/pkg/rest.NewEndpoint(input).ToCmdLine()
+// This was taken from  github.com/crc-org/vfkit/pkg/rest.NewEndpoint(input).ToCmdLine()
+// and adapted with only the case we use.
 func restNewEndpointToCmdLine(input string) ([]string, error) {
 	uri, err := url.ParseRequestURI(input)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	switch strings.ToUpper(uri.Scheme) {
-	case "NONE":
-		return []string{}, nil
-	case "UNIX":
-		if len(uri.Path) < 1 {
-			return nil, errors.New("invalid unix uri: missing path")
-		}
-		if len(uri.Host) > 0 {
-			return nil, errors.New("invalid unix uri: host is forbidden")
-		}
-		if len(uri.Path) > maxSocketPathLen() {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid unix uri: socket path length exceeds macOS limits")
-		}
-		return []string{"--restful-uri", fmt.Sprintf("unix://%s", uri.Path)}, nil
-	case "TCP", "HTTP":
+	switch uri.Scheme {
+	case "tcp", "http":
 		if len(uri.Host) < 1 {
 			return nil, errors.New("invalid TCP uri: missing host")
 		}