diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/copr_stg b/inventory/group_vars/copr_stg
index 02fca5b4ab..60c4bf3025 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/copr_stg
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/copr_stg
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---
 devel: true
+stage: true
 #_forward-src: "{{ files }}/copr/forward-dev"
 _forward_src: "forward_dev"
 
diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/templates/resalloc/pools.yaml b/roles/copr/backend/templates/resalloc/pools.yaml
index 529687de43..06180161c5 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/templates/resalloc/pools.yaml
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/templates/resalloc/pools.yaml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ aarch64_02_prod:
     cmd_delete: "/var/lib/resallocserver/resalloc_provision/vm-aarch64-delete"
     tags:
     - aarch64
-{% else %}
+{% elif not stage %}
 # Development configuration.  On each aarch64 host we have
 # 2 guests vms of
 # -  2 VCPUs   (default)