diff --git a/site-cookbooks/kosmos_kvm/files/create_vm b/site-cookbooks/kosmos_kvm/files/create_vm
index bdb0b81..9c86baa 100644
--- a/site-cookbooks/kosmos_kvm/files/create_vm
+++ b/site-cookbooks/kosmos_kvm/files/create_vm
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ fi
 
 # setting --os-variant to ubuntu20.04 and ubuntu18.04 breaks SSH and networking
 virt-install \
-  --name cloudinit-1 \
+  --name "$VMNAME" \
   --ram "$RAM" \
   --vcpus "$CPUS" \
   --cpu host \