diff --git a/tasks/magnum_install.yml b/tasks/magnum_install.yml
index 90e4d82..ca1715c 100644
--- a/tasks/magnum_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/magnum_install.yml
@@ -108,11 +108,22 @@
     - ansible_pkg_mgr in ['yum', 'zypper']
     - magnum_get_venv | changed
 
+# NOTE(odyssey4me):
+# We reinitialize the venv to ensure that the right
+# version of python is in the venv, but we do not
+# want virtualenv to also replace pip, setuptools
+# and wheel so we tell it not to.
+# We do not use --always-copy for CentOS/SuSE due
+# to https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/565
 - name: Update virtualenv path
   shell: |
     find {{ magnum_bin }} -name \*.pyc -delete
     sed -si '1s/^.*python.*$/#!{{ magnum_bin | replace ('/','\/') }}\/python/' {{ magnum_bin }}/*
-    virtualenv {{ magnum_bin | dirname }}
+    virtualenv {{ magnum_bin | dirname }} \
+        {{ (ansible_pkg_mgr == 'apt') | ternary('--always-copy', '') }} \
+        --no-pip \
+        --no-setuptools \
+        --no-wheel
   when: magnum_get_venv | changed
   tags:
     - skip_ansible_lint