diff --git a/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift b/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift
index b8eda640..d572cff2 100644
--- a/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift
+++ b/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift
@@ -447,8 +447,8 @@ public final class LinuxContainer: Container, Sendable {
         "/run/container/\(id)/rootfs"
     }
 
-    private static func guestSocketStagingPath(_ containerID: String, socketID: String) -> String {
-        "/run/container/\(containerID)/sockets/\(socketID).sock"
+    private static func guestSocketStagingPath(_ socketID: String) -> String {
+        "/run/container/sockets/\(socketID).sock"
     }
 }
 
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ extension LinuxContainer {
                     mounts.append(
                         ContainerizationOCI.Mount(
                             type: "bind",
-                            source: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(self.id, socketID: socket.id),
+                            source: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(socket.id),
                             destination: socket.destination.path,
                             options: ["bind"]
                         ))
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ extension LinuxContainer {
         let port: UInt32
         if socket.direction == .into {
             port = self.hostVsockPorts.wrappingAdd(1, ordering: .relaxed).oldValue
-            socket.destination = URL(filePath: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(self.id, socketID: socket.id))
+            socket.destination = URL(filePath: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(socket.id))
         } else {
             port = self.guestVsockPorts.wrappingAdd(1, ordering: .relaxed).oldValue
             socket.source = rootInGuest.appending(path: socket.source.path)
diff --git a/Sources/Containerization/LinuxPod.swift b/Sources/Containerization/LinuxPod.swift
index 63c96ebc..bb91a76d 100644
--- a/Sources/Containerization/LinuxPod.swift
+++ b/Sources/Containerization/LinuxPod.swift
@@ -296,8 +296,8 @@ public final class LinuxPod: Sendable {
         "/run/container/\(containerID)/rootfs"
     }
 
-    private static func guestSocketStagingPath(_ containerID: String, socketID: String) -> String {
-        "/run/container/\(containerID)/sockets/\(socketID).sock"
+    private static func guestSocketStagingPath(_ socketID: String) -> String {
+        "/run/container/sockets/\(socketID).sock"
     }
 
     private static func guestVolumePath(_ volumeName: String) -> String {
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ extension LinuxPod {
                     mounts.append(
                         ContainerizationOCI.Mount(
                             type: "bind",
-                            source: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(containerID, socketID: socket.id),
+                            source: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(socket.id),
                             destination: socket.destination.path,
                             options: ["bind"]
                         ))
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ extension LinuxPod {
         let port: UInt32
         if socket.direction == .into {
             port = self.hostVsockPorts.wrappingAdd(1, ordering: .relaxed).oldValue
-            socket.destination = URL(filePath: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(containerID, socketID: socket.id))
+            socket.destination = URL(filePath: Self.guestSocketStagingPath(socket.id))
         } else {
             port = self.guestVsockPorts.wrappingAdd(1, ordering: .relaxed).oldValue
             socket.source = rootInGuest.appending(path: socket.source.path)
diff --git a/Sources/Integration/ContainerTests.swift b/Sources/Integration/ContainerTests.swift
index eaf6e50b..404bfb43 100644
--- a/Sources/Integration/ContainerTests.swift
+++ b/Sources/Integration/ContainerTests.swift
@@ -1121,6 +1121,64 @@ extension IntegrationSuite {
         }
     }
 
+    // NOTE: Once upon a time our guest agent created any proxied unix sockets at
+    // a path that contained the container ID in it. The problem here is if the container
+    // ID is comically long we exceed the max length of a unix domain socket path.
+    func testUnixSocketIntoGuestLongContainerID() async throws {
+        let id = "test-unixsocket-long-id-" + String(repeating: "a", count: 40)
+
+        let bs = try await bootstrap(id)
+
+        let hostSocketPath = try createHostUnixSocket()
+
+        let buffer = BufferWriter()
+        let container = try LinuxContainer(id, rootfs: bs.rootfs, vmm: bs.vmm) { config in
+            config.process.arguments = ["sleep", "100"]
+            config.sockets = [
+                UnixSocketConfiguration(
+                    source: URL(filePath: hostSocketPath),
+                    destination: URL(filePath: "/tmp/test.sock"),
+                    direction: .into
+                )
+            ]
+            config.bootLog = bs.bootLog
+        }
+
+        do {
+            try await container.create()
+            try await container.start()
+
+            let lsExec = try await container.exec("ls-socket") { config in
+                config.arguments = ["ls", "-l", "/tmp/test.sock"]
+                config.stdout = buffer
+            }
+
+            try await lsExec.start()
+            let status = try await lsExec.wait()
+            try await lsExec.delete()
+
+            guard status.exitCode == 0 else {
+                throw IntegrationError.assert(msg: "ls command failed with status \(status)")
+            }
+
+            guard let output = String(data: buffer.data, encoding: .utf8) else {
+                throw IntegrationError.assert(msg: "failed to convert ls output to UTF8")
+            }
+
+            guard output.hasPrefix("s") else {
+                throw IntegrationError.assert(
+                    msg: "expected socket file (starting with 's'), got: \(output)")
+            }
+
+            try await container.kill(.kill)
+            try await container.wait()
+            try await container.stop()
+        } catch {
+            try? await container.stop()
+            throw error
+        }
+    }
+
     func testNonClosureConstructor() async throws {
         let id = "test-container-non-closure-constructor"
 
diff --git a/Sources/Integration/Suite.swift b/Sources/Integration/Suite.swift
index 9eec1248..a0e0ba91 100644
--- a/Sources/Integration/Suite.swift
+++ b/Sources/Integration/Suite.swift
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ struct IntegrationSuite: AsyncParsableCommand {
                 Test("container memory events OOM kill", testMemoryEventsOOMKill),
                 Test("container no serial console", testNoSerialConsole),
                 Test("unix socket into guest", testUnixSocketIntoGuest),
+                Test("unix socket into guest long container id", testUnixSocketIntoGuestLongContainerID),
                 Test("unix socket into guest symlink", testUnixSocketIntoGuestSymlink),
                 Test("container non-closure constructor", testNonClosureConstructor),
                 Test("container test large stdio ingest", testLargeStdioOutput),