diff --git a/testing/INSTALL b/testing/INSTALL
index e2722c373..d12b34d0b 100644
--- a/testing/INSTALL
+++ b/testing/INSTALL
@@ -55,10 +55,8 @@ are required for the strongSwan testing environment:
 
       http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2
 
-    * The Linux kernel 2.6.26 requires the following patch for the uml guest kernel
-      to successfully start up:
-
-      http://download.strongswan.org/uml/uml-2.6.28.patch.bz2
+    * The Linux kernel 2.6.28 does not require any patches for the uml guest kernel
+      to successfully start up.
 
     * The matching .config file required to compile the UML kernel:
 
diff --git a/testing/testing.conf b/testing/testing.conf
index cce264d00..bf802897c 100755
--- a/testing/testing.conf
+++ b/testing/testing.conf
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ KERNELVERSION=`basename $KERNEL .tar.bz2 | sed -e 's/linux-//'`
 KERNELCONFIG=$UMLTESTDIR/.config-2.6.28
 
 # Bzipped uml patch for kernel
-UMLPATCH=$UMLTESTDIR/uml-2.6.28.patch.bz2
+#UMLPATCH=$UMLTESTDIR/uml-2.6.26.patch.bz2
 
 # Bzipped source of strongSwan
 STRONGSWAN=$UMLTESTDIR/strongswan-4.2.11.tar.bz2