diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/install_libvirt_daemon_centos-9826ecb428bce8a5.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/install_libvirt_daemon_centos-9826ecb428bce8a5.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c51770f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/install_libvirt_daemon_centos-9826ecb428bce8a5.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Fixes the absence of ``libvirtd.service`` on compute nodes.
+    With CentOS upgrading the libvirt version to 9.3.0, they do not
+    install libvirt-deamon as a dependency to libvirt-deamon-kvm
+    anymore. libvirt-deamon is installed explicitly now.
diff --git a/vars/redhat.yml b/vars/redhat.yml
index 004823b5..a0b2f545 100644
--- a/vars/redhat.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat.yml
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ nova_compute_barbican_distro_packages:
   - cryptsetup
 
 nova_compute_kvm_distro_packages:
+  - libvirt-daemon
   - libvirt-daemon-kvm
   - qemu-kvm
   - libvirt-client