diff --git a/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml b/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
index 407fd79aac..b10846e5ec 100644
--- a/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
+++ b/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ outputs:
                   map_merge:
                     - {get_param: NovaComputeOptEnvVars}
                     - KOLLA_CONFIG_STRATEGY: COPY_ALWAYS
+                    - LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND: libvirt:qemu:///system
             - if:
                 - is_not_additional_cell
                 - nova_wait_for_compute_service: