diff --git a/integration/run-integration-tests-in-a-vm b/integration/run-integration-tests
similarity index 100%
rename from integration/run-integration-tests-in-a-vm
rename to integration/run-integration-tests
diff --git a/integration/run-integration-tests-in-lxd b/integration/run-integration-tests-in-lxd
index a92d64b6..b260aaa9 100755
--- a/integration/run-integration-tests-in-lxd
+++ b/integration/run-integration-tests-in-lxd
@@ -12,64 +12,36 @@
 set -ex
 
 _dir="$( cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd)"
-_release=$(lsb_release -cs)
 
-if [[ "${_release}" == "bionic" ]]; then
-	echo "Running Bionic (18:04) integration tests"
-	CONTAINER_IMAGE="ubuntu:18.04"
+function _run_tests {
+	local _target=${1}
 	CONTAINER_NAME=pylxd-`uuidgen | cut -d"-" -f1`
 
-	# This creates a privileged container, because I was bumping into situations where it
-	# seemed that we had maxed out user namespaces (I haven't checked it out, but it's likely
-	# a bug in LXD).
-	lxc launch $CONTAINER_IMAGE $CONTAINER_NAME -c security.nesting=true -c security.privileged=true
-	sleep 5  # Wait for the network to come up
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- apt-get update
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- apt-get install -y tox python3-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev build-essential
-
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- lxc config set core.trust_password password
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- lxc config set core.https_address [::]
-	# force generation of client certificate to an address that doesn't work (http)
-	# generate an openssl certificate and key for the remote not verified test
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- mkdir -p /root/.config/lxc
-	openssl genrsa 1024 > ./$CONTAINER_NAME.key
-	lxc file push ./$CONTAINER_NAME.key $CONTAINER_NAME/root/.config/lxc/client.key
-	rm ./$CONTAINER_NAME.key
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- chmod 400 /root/.config/lxc/client.key
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 365 \
-		-key /root/.config/lxc/client.key -out /root/.config/lxc/client.crt \
-		-subj="/C=UK/ST=London/L=London/O=OrgName/OU=Test/CN=example.com"
-
-	# create a default dir storage pool for bionic
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- lxc storage create default dir
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- lxc profile device add default root disk path=/ pool=default
-
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- mkdir -p /opt/pylxd
-	# NOTE: rockstar (13 Sep 2016) - --recursive is not supported in lxd <2.1, so
-	# until we have pervasive support for that, we'll do this tar hack.
-	cd .. && tar cf - * .git | lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- tar xf - -C /opt/pylxd
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- /bin/sh -c "cd /opt/pylxd && tox -eintegration"
-	lxc delete --force $CONTAINER_NAME
-else
-	echo "Running Xenial (16:04) integration tests"
-	CONTAINER_IMAGE="ubuntu:16.04"
-	CONTAINER_NAME=pylxd-`uuidgen | cut -d"-" -f1`
+	if [[ "${_target}" == "bionic" ]]; then
+		echo "Running Bionic (18:04) integration tests"
+		CONTAINER_IMAGE="ubuntu:18.04"
+	else
+		echo "Running Xenial (16:04) integration tests"
+		CONTAINER_IMAGE="ubuntu:16.04"
+	fi
 
 	# This creates a privileged container, because I was bumping into situations where it
 	# seemed that we had maxed out user namespaces (I haven't checked it out, but it's likely
 	# a bug in LXD).
 	lxc launch $CONTAINER_IMAGE $CONTAINER_NAME -c security.nesting=true -c security.privileged=true
 	sleep 5  # Wait for the network to come up
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- apt-get update
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- apt-get install -y tox python3-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev build-essential
-
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- lxc config set core.trust_password password
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- lxc config set core.https_address [::]
 
 	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- mkdir -p /opt/pylxd
 	# NOTE: rockstar (13 Sep 2016) - --recursive is not supported in lxd <2.1, so
 	# until we have pervasive support for that, we'll do this tar hack.
-	cd .. && tar cf - ../* ../.git | lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- tar xf - -C /opt/pylxd
-	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- /bin/sh -c "cd /opt/pylxd && tox -eintegration"
+	local ldir="${_dir}/.."
+	cd ${ldir} && tar cf - * .git | lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- tar xf - -C /opt/pylxd
+	cd ${_dir}
+	lxc exec $CONTAINER_NAME -- /bin/sh -c "cd /opt/pylxd && integration/run-integration-tests"
+
 	lxc delete --force $CONTAINER_NAME
-fi
+}
+
+# run xenial and then bionic integration tests
+_run_tests xenial
+_run_tests bionic