diff --git a/build/packer/ansible/roles/ami-ovf/tasks/main.yml b/build/packer/ansible/roles/ami-ovf/tasks/main.yml
index fa8250bb53..35b0644261 100644
--- a/build/packer/ansible/roles/ami-ovf/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/build/packer/ansible/roles/ami-ovf/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,4 @@
 ---
-- name: Update podman.conf
-  lineinfile:
-    path: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/podman.conf
-    regexp: '^x /tmp/storage-run-\*'
-    line: 'R! /tmp/storage-run-*'
-    backrefs: yes
-
 - name: PMM                        | Delete ec2-user EL9
   shell: cd /tmp; nohup sh -c "trap 'userdel -r ec2-user' EXIT; sleep 600" </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
   when:
diff --git a/build/packer/ansible/roles/podman-setup/tasks/main.yml b/build/packer/ansible/roles/podman-setup/tasks/main.yml
index b7e9bf21fe..3cedef6460 100644
--- a/build/packer/ansible/roles/podman-setup/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/build/packer/ansible/roles/podman-setup/tasks/main.yml
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@
     policy: targeted
     state: permissive
 
+- name: Update podman.conf for ami and ovf
+  lineinfile:
+    path: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/podman.conf
+    regexp: '^x /tmp/storage-run-\*'
+    line: 'R! /tmp/storage-run-*'
+    backrefs: yes
+  when: pmm_distribution_method in ['ovf', 'ami']
+
 - name: Create a volume on the host
   command: podman volume create pmm-data
   become: true