diff --git a/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/element-deps b/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/element-deps
index ef30983797..e894408ece 100644
--- a/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/element-deps
+++ b/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/element-deps
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ package-installs
 pkg-map
 source-repositories
 svc-map
-pip-and-virtualenv
 ubuntu-docker
diff --git a/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/install.d/guest-agent-source-install/31-guest-agent-install b/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/install.d/guest-agent-source-install/31-guest-agent-install
index 1eb66ffd1f..0cd630594b 100755
--- a/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/install.d/guest-agent-source-install/31-guest-agent-install
+++ b/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/install.d/guest-agent-source-install/31-guest-agent-install
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ done
 install -D -g root -o ${GUEST_USERNAME} -m 0644 ${SCRIPTDIR}/guest-agent.logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/guest-agent
 
 # Create a virtual environment (with dependencies installed) for guest agent service
-${DIB_PYTHON} -m virtualenv ${GUEST_VENV}
+/usr/bin/python3 -m venv ${GUEST_VENV}
 ${GUEST_VENV}/bin/pip install pip --upgrade
 ${GUEST_VENV}/bin/pip install -U -c /opt/upper-constraints.txt /opt/guest-agent
 chown -R ${GUEST_USERNAME}:root ${GUEST_VENV}
diff --git a/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/package-installs.yaml b/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/package-installs.yaml
index 37e7daa4b3..f7470c402e 100644
--- a/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/package-installs.yaml
+++ b/integration/scripts/files/elements/guest-agent/package-installs.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 guest-agent:
   installtype: package
 build-essential:
-python3-all:
-python3-all-dev:
-python3-pip:
-python3-sqlalchemy:
 libxml2-dev:
 libxslt1-dev:
 libffi-dev:
@@ -12,4 +8,11 @@ libssl-dev:
 libyaml-dev:
 openssh-client:
 openssh-server:
+pollinate:
+psmisc:
+python3-dev:
+python3-pip:
+python3-setuptools:
+python3-sqlalchemy:
+python3-venv:
 rsync:
diff --git a/integration/scripts/functions_qemu b/integration/scripts/functions_qemu
index 12ff4f20db..63ed2f06c7 100644
--- a/integration/scripts/functions_qemu
+++ b/integration/scripts/functions_qemu
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ function build_guest_image() {
     pushd $TEMP > /dev/null
 
     elementes="$elementes ${guest_os}"
-    elementes="$elementes pip-and-virtualenv"
     elementes="$elementes pip-cache"
     elementes="$elementes guest-agent"
     elementes="$elementes ${guest_os}-docker"