diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/prepare_libvirt.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/prepare_libvirt.yml
index 25802d6f8..a6f516420 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/prepare_libvirt.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/prepare_libvirt.yml
@@ -22,24 +22,16 @@
     - default_boot_mode != 'uefi'
     - test_vm_secure_boot | bool
 
-- name: install gunicorn and lxml
+- name: install libvirt-python, gunicorn and lxml
   include_role:
     name: bifrost-pip-install
   vars:
     package: "{{ item }}"
   loop:
+    - libvirt-python
     - gunicorn
     - lxml
 
-- name: install libvirt-python
-  include_role:
-    name: bifrost-pip-install
-  vars:
-    package: libvirt-python
-    # FIXME(dtantsur): libvirt-python 7.5.0 cannot be used when installed from
-    # a wheel, force a source installation
-    extra_args: --no-binary libvirt-python
-
 - name: configure libvirt log filters for qemu
   blockinfile:
     path: /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/libvirt-not-importable-c8e88a8ef11a1f09.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/libvirt-not-importable-c8e88a8ef11a1f09.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e6d25a353..000000000
--- a/releasenotes/notes/libvirt-not-importable-c8e88a8ef11a1f09.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
----
-fixes:
-  - |
-    Works around the ``libvirt module is not importable`` error by installing
-    libvirt-python from source install of a wheel.