diff --git a/puppet/services/nova-libvirt.yaml b/puppet/services/nova-libvirt.yaml
index c9c11f6533..16c45bc5a2 100644
--- a/puppet/services/nova-libvirt.yaml
+++ b/puppet/services/nova-libvirt.yaml
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ outputs:
             nova::compute::libvirt::qemu::configure_qemu: true
             nova::compute::libvirt::qemu::max_files: 32768
             nova::compute::libvirt::qemu::max_processes: 131072
+            nova::migration::qemu::configure_qemu: true
             nova::migration::qemu::migration_port_min: 61152
             nova::migration::qemu::migration_port_max: 61215
             nova::compute::libvirt::vncserver_listen:
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/nova_qemu_enable_config-c89016b4d93802d6.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/nova_qemu_enable_config-c89016b4d93802d6.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6775b381c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/nova_qemu_enable_config-c89016b4d93802d6.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    With https://review.openstack.org/#/c/561784 we change the default
+    migration port range to '61152-61215'.
+    nova::migration::qemu::configure_qemu needs to be set to true that
+    the config gets applied via puppet-nova.