diff --git a/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb b/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb
index 544af5412..b1187bd09 100644
--- a/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb
+++ b/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor.rb
@@ -10,9 +10,15 @@ module VagrantPlugins
           end
 
           # Detect various flavors we care about
-          if output =~ /(CentOS|Red Hat Enterprise|Scientific|Cloud|Virtuozzo)\s*Linux( .+)? release 7/i
+          if output =~ /(CentOS)( .+)? 7/i
+            return :centos_7
+          elsif output =~ /(CentOS)( .+)? 8/i
+            return :centos_8
+          elsif output =~ /(CentOS)( .+)?/i
+            return :centos
+          elsif output =~ /(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
+          elsif output =~ /(Red Hat Enterprise|Scientific|Cloud|Virtuozzo)\s*Linux( .+)? release 8/i
             return :rhel_8
           else
             return :rhel
diff --git a/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb b/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb
index df890783f..0aa26943e 100644
--- a/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/plugins/guests/redhat/cap/flavor_test.rb
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ describe "VagrantPlugins::GuestRedHat::Cap::Flavor" do
     let(:cap) { caps.get(:flavor) }
 
     {
-      "CentOS Linux 2.4 release 7" => :rhel_7,
+      "CentOS Linux 2.4 release 7" => :centos_7,
       "Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 7" => :rhel_7,
       "Scientific Linux release 7" => :rhel_7,
       "CloudLinux release 7.2 (Valeri Kubasov)" => :rhel_7,
 
-      "CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)" => :rhel_8,
+      "CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)" => :centos_8,
       "Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8" => :rhel_8,
 
-      "CentOS" => :rhel,
+      "CentOS" => :centos,
       "RHEL 6" => :rhel,
       "banana" => :rhel,
     }.each do |str, expected|