diff --git a/recipes/libvirt.rb b/recipes/libvirt.rb
index e5aae2fc..c020f6fb 100644
--- a/recipes/libvirt.rb
+++ b/recipes/libvirt.rb
@@ -135,7 +135,11 @@ template '/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf' do
   notifies :restart, 'service[libvirt-bin]', :immediately
 end
 
-template '/etc/default/libvirt-bin' do
+# The package libvirt-bin on debian now provides the service libvirtd
+# (libvirt-bin is still defined as an alias) and reads its environment from
+# /etc/libvirt/libvirtd instead of the previously used
+# /etc/default/libvirt-bin.
+template '/etc/default/libvirtd' do
   source 'libvirt-bin.erb'
   owner 'root'
   group 'root'
diff --git a/spec/libvirt_spec.rb b/spec/libvirt_spec.rb
index c7a6339d..010ec712 100644
--- a/spec/libvirt_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/libvirt_spec.rb
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ describe 'openstack-compute::libvirt' do
       end
     end
 
-    describe '/etc/default/libvirt-bin' do
-      let(:file) { chef_run.template('/etc/default/libvirt-bin') }
+    describe '/etc/default/libvirtd' do
+      let(:file) { chef_run.template('/etc/default/libvirtd') }
 
-      it 'creates the /etc/default/libvirt-bin file' do
+      it 'creates the /etc/default/libvirtd file' do
         expect(chef_run).to create_template(file.name).with(
           owner: 'root',
           group: 'root',