diff --git a/roles/vmhost/vars/main.yml b/roles/vmhost/vars/main.yml
index 984e75b..335f204 100644
--- a/roles/vmhost/vars/main.yml
+++ b/roles/vmhost/vars/main.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ vmhost_required_packages:
 - libvirt-daemon-driver-network
 - libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
 - libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
+- nmap-ncat
 - python3-libvirt
 - python3-lxml
 - qemu-audio-spice