diff --git a/files/rpms/nova b/files/rpms/nova
index 45f1c94f1f..a368c552aa 100644
--- a/files/rpms/nova
+++ b/files/rpms/nova
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ iptables
 iputils
 kernel-modules # dist:f23,f24,f25
 kpartx
-kvm # NOPRIME
-libvirt-bin # NOPRIME
-libvirt-devel # NOPRIME
-libvirt-python # NOPRIME
 libxml2-python
 m2crypto
 mysql-devel
@@ -21,7 +17,6 @@ mysql-server # NOPRIME
 numpy # needed by websockify for spice console
 parted
 polkit
-qemu-kvm # NOPRIME
 rabbitmq-server # NOPRIME
 sqlite
 sudo
diff --git a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
index 47b054bc58..d225ef84fb 100644
--- a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
+++ b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
@@ -34,18 +34,23 @@ function install_libvirt {
         #pip_install_gr <there-si-no-guestfs-in-pypi>
     elif is_fedora || is_suse; then
         # On "KVM for IBM z Systems", kvm does not have its own package
-        if [[ ! ${DISTRO} =~ "kvmibm1" ]]; then
+        if [[ ! ${DISTRO} =~ "kvmibm1" && ! ${DISTRO} =~ "rhel7" ]]; then
             install_package kvm
         fi
-        # there is a dependency issue with kvm (which is really just a
-        # wrapper to qemu-system-x86) that leaves some bios files out,
-        # so install qemu-kvm (which shouldn't strictly be needed, as
-        # everything has been merged into qemu-system-x86) to bring in
-        # the right packages. see
-        # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235890
-        install_package qemu-kvm
+
+        if [[ ${DISTRO} =~ "rhel7" ]]; then
+            # On centos7 install the qemu-kvm-ev package, which is a
+            # later version of qemu-kvm rebuilt from the qemu-kvm-rhev
+            # package by the virt SIG (as required by nova).  This
+            # package is only provided for RHOS (openstack) or RHV
+            # (ovirt) in RHEL.  We have already insalled the RDO
+            # repositories which provide this.
+            install_package qemu-kvm-ev
+        fi
+
         install_package libvirt libvirt-devel
         pip_install_gr libvirt-python
+
     fi
 }