diff --git a/test/openstack/run_openstack_tests.sh b/test/openstack/run_openstack_tests.sh
index 178bc6c18..8a34f267c 100755
--- a/test/openstack/run_openstack_tests.sh
+++ b/test/openstack/run_openstack_tests.sh
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@
 
 testdir=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
 rootdir=$(readlink -f $testdir/../..)
-rpc_py=$rootdir/scripts/rpc.py
 
 set -- "--iso" "--transport=tcp" "$@"
 
 source $rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh
 source $rootdir/test/nvmf/common.sh
 
+rpc_py=$rootdir/scripts/rpc.py
+
 HUGE_EVEN_ALLOC=yes HUGEMEM=1024 nvmftestinit
 
 function finish_test() {