diff --git a/lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent b/lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent
index 84df9181ea..b7330db9db 100644
--- a/lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent
+++ b/lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@ OVN_DBS_LOG_LEVEL=${OVN_DBS_LOG_LEVEL:-info}
 OVN_META_CONF=$NEUTRON_CONF_DIR/neutron_ovn_metadata_agent.ini
 OVN_META_DATA_HOST=${OVN_META_DATA_HOST:-$(ipv6_unquote $SERVICE_HOST)}
 
-OVSDB_SERVER_LOCAL_HOST=$SERVICE_LOCAL_HOST
+export OVSDB_SERVER_LOCAL_HOST=$SERVICE_LOCAL_HOST
+if [[ "$SERVICE_IP_VERSION" == 6 ]]; then
+    OVSDB_SERVER_LOCAL_HOST=[$OVSDB_SERVER_LOCAL_HOST]
+fi
 
 OVN_IGMP_SNOOPING_ENABLE=$(trueorfalse False OVN_IGMP_SNOOPING_ENABLE)
 
diff --git a/lib/nova b/lib/nova
index 9d7bbd8fca..d7426039c4 100644
--- a/lib/nova
+++ b/lib/nova
@@ -906,6 +906,11 @@ function start_nova_compute {
     # by the compute process.
     configure_console_compute
 
+    # Configure the OVSDB connection for os-vif
+    if [ -n "$OVSDB_SERVER_LOCAL_HOST" ]; then
+        iniset $NOVA_CPU_CONF os_vif_ovs ovsdb_connection "tcp:$OVSDB_SERVER_LOCAL_HOST:6640"
+    fi
+
     if [[ "$VIRT_DRIVER" = 'libvirt' ]]; then
         # The group **$LIBVIRT_GROUP** is added to the current user in this script.
         # ``sg`` is used in run_process to execute nova-compute as a member of the