diff --git a/lib/vagrant/hosts/bsd.rb b/lib/vagrant/hosts/bsd.rb
index 655cf237d..7d63c4b91 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/hosts/bsd.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/hosts/bsd.rb
@@ -3,17 +3,11 @@ module Vagrant
     # Represents a BSD host, such as FreeBSD and Darwin (Mac OS X).
     class BSD < Base
       include Util
+      include Util::Retryable
 
       def nfs?
-        tries = 10
-        begin
+        retryable(:tries => 10, :on => TypeError) do
           system("which nfsd > /dev/null 2>&1")
-        rescue TypeError
-          tries -= 1
-          retry if tries > 0
-
-          # Hopefully this point isn't reached
-          raise
         end
       end
 
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/hosts/linux.rb b/lib/vagrant/hosts/linux.rb
index 816a63e20..1d9706f2d 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/hosts/linux.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/hosts/linux.rb
@@ -3,18 +3,12 @@ module Vagrant
     # Represents a Linux based host, such as Ubuntu.
     class Linux < Base
       include Util
+      include Util::Retryable
 
       def nfs?
-        tries = 10
-        begin
+        retryable(:tries => 10, :on => TypeError) do
           # Check procfs to see if NFSd is a supported filesystem
           system("cat /proc/filesystems | grep nfsd > /dev/null 2>&1")
-        rescue TypeError
-          tries -= 1
-          retry if tries > 0
-
-          # Hopefully this point isn't reached
-          raise
         end
       end