diff --git a/src/test/java/com/exasol/containers/ExasolContainerAssumptions.java b/src/test/java/com/exasol/containers/ExasolContainerAssumptions.java
index 7c5d76b1..171da1ad 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/exasol/containers/ExasolContainerAssumptions.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/exasol/containers/ExasolContainerAssumptions.java
@@ -42,4 +42,14 @@ public static void assumeDockerDbVersionNotOverriddenToBelowExasolSevenOne() {
                             && dockerImageReference.hasMinor() && (dockerImageReference.getMinor() > 0)));
         }
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+
+    /**
+     * Assume that the Exasol dockerdb version a container runs with is not overridden to a version below 8
+     */
+    public static void assumeDockerDbVersionNotOverriddenToBelowExasolEight() {
+        if (getDockerImageOverrideProperty() != null) {
+            final ExasolDockerImageReference dockerImageReference = getDockerImageReference();
+            assumeTrue((dockerImageReference.hasMajor() && (dockerImageReference.getMajor() < 8)));
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/exasol/support/SupportInformationRetrieverIT.java b/src/test/java/com/exasol/support/SupportInformationRetrieverIT.java
index 4c2617cd..1702c099 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/exasol/support/SupportInformationRetrieverIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/exasol/support/SupportInformationRetrieverIT.java
@@ -17,16 +17,14 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.ArchiveEntry;
 import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveInputStream;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.*;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerLaunchException;
 import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Testcontainers;
 
-import com.exasol.containers.ExasolContainer;
-import com.exasol.containers.ExitType;
+import com.exasol.containers.*;
 
 @Tag("slow")
 @Testcontainers
@@ -34,6 +32,13 @@ class SupportInformationRetrieverIT {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SupportInformationRetrieverIT.class);
     private static final String SYSINFO_FILENAME = "sysinfo.txt";
 
+    @BeforeAll
+    static void assumeSupportPackageSupported() {
+        // These tests don't work with Exasol v8. We will fix this in
+        // https://github.com/exasol/exasol-testcontainers/issues/254
+        ExasolContainerAssumptions.assumeDockerDbVersionNotOverriddenToBelowExasolEight();
+    }
+
     // [itest->dsn~configure-support-information-retriever-via-api~1]
     @Test
     void testWriteSupportBundleOnExit(@TempDir final Path tempDir) {