diff --git a/plugins/hosts/fedora/host.rb b/plugins/hosts/fedora/host.rb
index c8fef743c..ec7501633 100644
--- a/plugins/hosts/fedora/host.rb
+++ b/plugins/hosts/fedora/host.rb
@@ -37,11 +37,14 @@ module VagrantPlugins
         release_file = Pathname.new("/etc/redhat-release")
         begin
           release_file.open("r:ISO-8859-1:UTF-8") do |f|
-            version_number = /(CentOS|Fedora|Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server).*release ([0-9]+)/.match(f.gets)[2].to_i
-            if version_number >= 16
-              # "service nfs-server" will redirect properly to systemctl
-              # when "service nfs-server restart" is called.
-              nfs_server_binary = "/usr/sbin/service nfs-server"
+            fedora_match = /Fedora.* release ([0-9]+)/.match(f.gets)
+            if fedora_match
+              version_number = fedora_match[1].to_i
+              if version_number >= 16
+                # "service nfs-server" will redirect properly to systemctl
+                # when "service nfs-server restart" is called.
+                nfs_server_binary = "/usr/sbin/service nfs-server"
+              end
             end
           end
         rescue Errno::ENOENT