diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index be977b9c..b35913f2 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -415,6 +415,10 @@ nova_compute_lxd_pip_packages:
 nova_qemu_user: libvirt-qemu
 nova_qemu_group: kvm
 
+# Define the following variable to drop a replacement
+# file for /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
+#qemu_conf_dict: {}
+
 # This variable is used by the repo_build process to determine
 # which host group to check for members of before building the
 # pip packages required by this role. The value is picked up
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-qemu-conf-d42337dfd42bac6f.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-qemu-conf-d42337dfd42bac6f.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da48406a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-qemu-conf-d42337dfd42bac6f.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+features:
+  - The os_nova role can now deploy the a custom
+    /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf file by defining ``qemu_conf_dict``.
diff --git a/tasks/nova_compute_kvm.yml b/tasks/nova_compute_kvm.yml
index 1c7d62b1..bb6b3688 100644
--- a/tasks/nova_compute_kvm.yml
+++ b/tasks/nova_compute_kvm.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,19 @@
     - nova-kvm
     - nova-libvirt
 
+- name: Set qemu config
+  template:
+    src: "qemu.conf.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+    mode: "0600"
+  when: qemu_conf_dict is defined
+  notify: Restart libvirt-bin
+  tags:
+    - nova-kvm
+    - nova-libvirt
+
 - name: Set libvirt runtime options
   lineinfile:
     dest: "/etc/default/libvirt-bin"
diff --git a/templates/qemu.conf.j2 b/templates/qemu.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9a9934d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/qemu.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+{% for key, value in qemu_conf_dict.iteritems() %}
+{{ key }} = {{ value }}
+{% endfor %}