diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml
index 083371a1c..98776a912 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 sgabios_dir: /usr/share/qemu/
 libvirt_service_name: libvirt-bin
 required_packages:
+ - g++
  - libvirt-bin
  - libxslt1-dev
  - libxml2-dev
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml
index 9c563e47a..7e32b5ece 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 sgabios_dir: /usr/share/sgabios/
 libvirt_service_name: libvirtd
 required_packages:
+ - gcc-c++
  - qemu-img
  - qemu-kvm-tools
  - qemu-kvm
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Suse.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Suse.yml
index 4c6601711..f38c10ccb 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Suse.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/defaults/required_defaults_Suse.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 sgabios_dir: /usr/share/sgabios/
 libvirt_service_name: libvirtd
 required_packages:
+ - gcc-c++
  - qemu-tools
  - qemu-kvm
  - qemu-x86