diff --git a/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb b/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb
index 32dc1a7c2..544af5412 100644
--- a/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb
+++ b/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ module VagrantPlugins
           # Detect various flavors we care about
           if output =~ /(CentOS|Red Hat Enterprise|Scientific|Cloud|Virtuozzo)\s*Linux( .+)? release 7/i
             return :rhel_7
+          elsif output =~ /(CentOS|Red Hat Enterprise|Scientific|Cloud|Virtuozzo)\s*Linux( .+)? release 8/i
+            return :rhel_8
           else
             return :rhel
           end
diff --git a/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb b/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb
index c711495fa..df890783f 100644
--- a/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ describe "VagrantPlugins::GuestRedHat::Cap::Flavor" do
       "Scientific Linux release 7" => :rhel_7,
       "CloudLinux release 7.2 (Valeri Kubasov)" => :rhel_7,
 
+      "CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)" => :rhel_8,
+      "Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8" => :rhel_8,
+
       "CentOS" => :rhel,
       "RHEL 6" => :rhel,
       "banana" => :rhel,