diff --git a/src/ProcessHosts/Elastic.ProcessHosts/Elasticsearch/Process/ElasticsearchProcess.cs b/src/ProcessHosts/Elastic.ProcessHosts/Elasticsearch/Process/ElasticsearchProcess.cs
index fa6c14ac..5e7e94ec 100644
--- a/src/ProcessHosts/Elastic.ProcessHosts/Elasticsearch/Process/ElasticsearchProcess.cs
+++ b/src/ProcessHosts/Elastic.ProcessHosts/Elasticsearch/Process/ElasticsearchProcess.cs
@@ -124,10 +124,9 @@ protected sealed override IEnumerable<string> CreateObservableProcessArguments(I
 			
 			if (!this.JavaVersionChecker.Start(null, out var javaVersionOut))
 				throw new StartupException($"Invalid Java version reported: {javaVersionOut}");
-
-			var jvmOptionsFile = Path.Combine(this.ConfigDirectory, "jvm.options");
-			if (!this.JvmOptionsParser.Start(new [] { $"\"{jvmOptionsFile}\"" }, out var jvmOptionsLine) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(jvmOptionsLine)) 
-				throw new StartupException($"Could not evaluate jvm.options file: {jvmOptionsFile} result: {jvmOptionsLine}");
+			
+			if (!this.JvmOptionsParser.Start(new [] { $"\"{this.ConfigDirectory}\"" }, out var jvmOptionsLine) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(jvmOptionsLine)) 
+				throw new StartupException($"Could not evaluate jvm.options file. result: {jvmOptionsLine}");
 			jvmOptionsLine = jvmOptionsLine.Replace("${ES_TMPDIR}", this.PrivateTempDirectory).Replace("\n", "").Replace("\r", "");
 
 			return new []