diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/prepare_vcsim/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/prepare_vcsim/tasks/main.yml
index 79ac60fd..6222774b 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/prepare_vcsim/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/prepare_vcsim/tasks/main.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   ansible.builtin.pip:
     name:
       - pyvmomi
-      - requests
+      - requests==2.31.0
 
 - name: Run vcsim
   community.docker.docker_container: