diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/516-remove-distutils-usage.yml b/changelogs/fragments/516-remove-distutils-usage.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0cc0bfae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/516-remove-distutils-usage.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - ovirt - Remove deprecated distutils (https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-ansible-collection/pull/516).
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/ovirt.py b/plugins/module_utils/ovirt.py
index 03b75dba3..266cc8445 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/ovirt.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/ovirt.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 from datetime import datetime
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import parse as LooseVersion
 
 from ansible_collections.@NAMESPACE@.@NAME@.plugins.module_utils.cloud import CloudRetry
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import env_fallback