diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
index 48dd55e2d2..9552fa3b47 100644
--- a/.zuul.yaml
+++ b/.zuul.yaml
@@ -735,6 +735,10 @@
     parent: tempest-full-py3
     description: CentOS 9 Stream platform test
     nodeset: devstack-single-node-centos-9-stream
+    vars:
+      devstack_localrc:
+        # TODO(ykarel) Remove this when moving to 10-stream
+        PYTHON3_VERSION: 3.11
     timeout: 9000
     voting: false
 
@@ -760,6 +764,9 @@
     voting: false
     vars:
       configure_swap_size: 4096
+      devstack_localrc:
+        # TODO(ykarel) Remove this when moving to rocky10
+        PYTHON3_VERSION: 3.11
 
 - job:
     name: devstack-platform-ubuntu-jammy
diff --git a/lib/apache b/lib/apache
index 744c0f10b6..b971ecf8cd 100644
--- a/lib/apache
+++ b/lib/apache
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ function install_apache_uwsgi {
     # didn't fix Python 3.10 compatibility before release.  Should be
     # fixed in uwsgi 4.9.0; can remove this when packages available
     # or we drop this release
-    elif is_fedora && ! is_openeuler && ! [[ $DISTRO =~ f36 ]]; then
+    elif is_fedora && ! is_openeuler && ! [[ $DISTRO =~ f36|rhel9 ]]; then
         # Note httpd comes with mod_proxy_uwsgi and it is loaded by
         # default; the mod_proxy_uwsgi package actually conflicts now.
         # See:
diff --git a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
index ba2e98e304..35840539da 100644
--- a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
+++ b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
@@ -93,7 +93,13 @@ function install_libvirt {
         # as the base system version is too old.  We should have
         # pre-installed these
         install_package $qemu_package
-        install_package libvirt libvirt-devel python3-libvirt
+        install_package libvirt libvirt-devel
+
+        if [[ $DISTRO =~ rhel9 ]]; then
+            pip_install_gr libvirt-python
+        else
+            install_package python3-libvirt
+        fi
 
         if is_arch "aarch64"; then
             install_package edk2-aarch64