diff --git a/ci-scripts/oai-ci-vm-tool b/ci-scripts/oai-ci-vm-tool
index 3fb4a7ee60a01eb5a4a3f2eca6001a448d578d91..f3192b1e4b1aaa7cddcbb5714ce572eb9ab3e4ff 100755
--- a/ci-scripts/oai-ci-vm-tool
+++ b/ci-scripts/oai-ci-vm-tool
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ function setvar_usage {
 	declare -A HELP_VAR
 	HELP_VAR["VM_OSREL"]="OS release to use in virtual machines"
 	HELP_VAR["RUN_EXPERIMENTAL"]="Enforce execution of variants with EXPERIMENTAL variable set to \"true\"" 
+        HELP_VAR["OPTIONAL_APTCACHER"]="build and Run tests will fail if apt-cacher not installed and this variable not set to \"true\"" 
     echo "--setvar_<varname> <value> where varname is one of:"
 	for i in ${AUTHORIZED_VAR[@]}; do printf "%20s :     %s\n" "$i" "${HELP_VAR[$i]}" ;done
 }
diff --git a/ci-scripts/runTestOnVM.sh b/ci-scripts/runTestOnVM.sh
index f2df1f7be046e584041dc4109780aeb0fd909b07..ac56a1885fe5b4d3441cd8e6cb86de3e8e179e72 100755
--- a/ci-scripts/runTestOnVM.sh
+++ b/ci-scripts/runTestOnVM.sh
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ function install_epc_on_vm {
     local LOC_EPC_VM_IP_ADDR=`uvt-kvm ip $LOC_EPC_VM_NAME`
 
     echo "$LOC_EPC_VM_NAME has for IP addr = $LOC_EPC_VM_IP_ADDR"
-    scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy ubuntu@$LOC_EPC_VM_IP_ADDR:/home/ubuntu
+    [ -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy ] && scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy ubuntu@$LOC_EPC_VM_IP_ADDR:/home/ubuntu
 
     # ltebox specific actions (install and start)
     LTE_BOX_TO_INSTALL=1
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ function install_epc_on_vm {
         echo "############################################################"
         echo "Install EPC on EPC VM ($LOC_EPC_VM_NAME)"
         echo "############################################################"
-        echo "sudo cp 01proxy /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" > $LOC_EPC_VM_CMDS
+        echo "sudo [ -f 01proxy ] && cp 01proxy /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" > $LOC_EPC_VM_CMDS
         echo "touch /home/ubuntu/.hushlogin" >> $LOC_EPC_VM_CMDS
         echo "echo \"sudo apt-get --yes --quiet install zip openjdk-8-jre libconfuse-dev libreadline-dev liblog4c-dev libgcrypt-dev libsctp-dev python2.7 python2.7-dev daemon iperf\"" >> $LOC_EPC_VM_CMDS
         echo "sudo apt-get update > zip-install.txt 2>&1" >> $LOC_EPC_VM_CMDS