diff --git a/roles/virthost/tasks/main.yml b/roles/virthost/tasks/main.yml
index eaa897ac5a..2ece0d1430 100644
--- a/roles/virthost/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/virthost/tasks/main.yml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
   - virt-install
   tags:
   - packages
-  when: ansible_distribution == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution_major_version|int == 7 and ansible_architecture == 'aarch64'
+  when: ansible_architecture == 'aarch64'
 
 - name: install libguestfs-tools for ARMv7 VMs on aarch64 rhel7 virthosts
   package: name={{ item }} state=present
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
   - libguestfs-tools-c
   tags:
   - packages
-  when: ansible_distribution == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution_major_version|int == 7 and ansible_architecture == 'aarch64'
+  when: ansible_architecture == 'aarch64'
 
 # install libvirtd.conf
 #