diff --git a/roles/airship-gather-libvirt-logs/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/airship-gather-libvirt-logs/tasks/main.yaml
index d7f947f11..f5f74e947 100644
--- a/roles/airship-gather-libvirt-logs/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/airship-gather-libvirt-logs/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
         state: directory
         recurse: true
         owner: "{{ ansible_user }}"
+        path: "{{ libvirt_log_dir }}"
       become: true
 
     - name: Downloads logs to executor