diff --git a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/files/default.xml b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/files/default.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1e17de20e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/files/default.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<network connections='1'>
+  <name>default</name>
+  <uuid>45d7b450-f5ef-4c8c-8eee-f80885076fd1</uuid>
+  <forward mode='nat'>
+    <nat>
+      <port start='1024' end='65535'/>
+    </nat>
+  </forward>
+  <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0'/>
+  <mac address='52:54:00:9a:fc:16'/>
+  <ip address='192.168.0.1' netmask='255.255.0.0'>
+    <dhcp>
+      <range start='192.168.0.3' end='192.168.255.254'/>
+    </dhcp>
+  </ip>
+</network>
diff --git a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
index e448aed194..344cf7ad3f 100644
--- a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
@@ -78,3 +78,10 @@
 - name: enable libvirtd
   service: name=libvirtd state=started enabled=yes
   when: deployment_type in ['dev', 'stg', 'prod']
+
+- name: upload custom libvirt network config
+  copy: src=default.xml dest=/root/default.xml owner=root group=root mode=0644
+  when: deployment_type in ['dev', 'stg', 'prod']
+
+- name: define libvirt network config
+  command: virsh-define /root/default.xml