diff --git a/gnu/build/marionette.scm b/gnu/build/marionette.scm
index f6ceb58472..015fc8a98b 100644
--- a/gnu/build/marionette.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/marionette.scm
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ QEMU monitor and to the guest's backdoor REPL."
   (define extra-options
     (list "-nographic"
           "-monitor" (string-append "unix:" socket-directory "/monitor")
-          "-chardev" (string-append "socket,id=repl,path=" socket-directory
-                                    "/repl,reconnect=1")
+          "-chardev" (string-append "socket,id=repl,path="
+                                    socket-directory "/repl")
           "-chardev" (string-append "socket,id=qga,server=on,wait=off,path="
                                     socket-directory "/qemu-ga")