diff --git a/test/e2e/run.sh b/test/e2e/run.sh
index 64eee9468..66df96094 100755
--- a/test/e2e/run.sh
+++ b/test/e2e/run.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 DEMO_TITLE="Container Runtime End-to-End Testing"
-DEFAULT_DISTRO="ubuntu-20.04"
+DEFAULT_DISTRO="ubuntu-22.04"
 
 PV='pv -qL'
 
diff --git a/test/e2e/run_tests.sh b/test/e2e/run_tests.sh
index 110399173..710d75d88 100755
--- a/test/e2e/run_tests.sh
+++ b/test/e2e/run_tests.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 TESTS_DIR="$1"
 RUN_SH="${0%/*}/run.sh"
 
-DEFAULT_DISTRO="ubuntu-20.04"
+DEFAULT_DISTRO="ubuntu-22.04"
 
 usage() {
     echo "Usage: run_tests.sh TESTS_DIR"