diff --git a/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java b/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java
index b693ce1b2b3e..f5920a8e037b 100644
--- a/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java
+++ b/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 import com.cloud.utils.backoff.BackoffAlgorithm;
 import com.cloud.utils.backoff.impl.ConstantTimeBackoff;
 import com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException;
-import org.apache.cloudstack.utils.security.KeyStoreUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.daemon.Daemon;
 import org.apache.commons.daemon.DaemonContext;
 import org.apache.commons.daemon.DaemonInitException;
@@ -375,7 +374,6 @@ public void init(String[] args) throws ConfigurationException {
 
         loadProperties();
         parseCommand(args);
-        enableSSL();
 
         if (s_logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
             List<String> properties = Collections.list((Enumeration<String>)_properties.propertyNames());
@@ -399,27 +397,6 @@ public void init(String[] args) throws ConfigurationException {
         _backoff.configure("ConstantTimeBackoff", new HashMap<String, Object>());
     }
 
-    private void enableSSL() {
-        final File agentFile = PropertiesUtil.findConfigFile("agent.properties");
-        if (agentFile == null) {
-            s_logger.info("Failed to find agent.properties file");
-            return;
-        }
-        String keystorePass = getProperty(null, "keystore.passphrase");
-        if (StringUtils.isBlank(keystorePass)) {
-            s_logger.info("Failed to find passphrase for keystore: " + KeyStoreUtils.KS_FILENAME);
-            return;
-        }
-        final String keyStoreFile = agentFile.getParent() + "/" + KeyStoreUtils.KS_FILENAME;
-        File f = new File(keyStoreFile);
-        if (f.exists() && !f.isDirectory()) {
-            System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", keyStoreFile);
-            System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", keystorePass);
-        } else {
-            s_logger.info("Failed to find keystore file: " + keyStoreFile);
-        }
-    }
-
     private void launchAgent() throws ConfigurationException {
         String resourceClassNames = getProperty(null, "resource");
         s_logger.trace("resource=" + resourceClassNames);
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index c513be6be229..c743a7858279 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ public boolean configure(final String name, final Map<String, Object> params) th
             }
         }
 
+        enableSSLForKvmAgent(params);
         configureLocalStorage(params);
 
         /* Directory to use for Qemu sockets like for the Qemu Guest Agent */
@@ -1282,6 +1283,23 @@ public boolean configure(final String name, final Map<String, Object> params) th
         return true;
     }
 
+    private void enableSSLForKvmAgent(final Map<String, Object> params) {
+        final File keyStoreFile = PropertiesUtil.findConfigFile(KeyStoreUtils.KS_FILENAME);
+        if (keyStoreFile == null) {
+            s_logger.info("Failed to find keystore file: " + KeyStoreUtils.KS_FILENAME);
+            return;
+        }
+        String keystorePass = (String)params.get(KeyStoreUtils.KS_PASSPHRASE_PROPERTY);
+        if (StringUtils.isBlank(keystorePass)) {
+            s_logger.info("Failed to find passphrase for keystore: " + KeyStoreUtils.KS_FILENAME);
+            return;
+        }
+        if (keyStoreFile.exists() && !keyStoreFile.isDirectory()) {
+            System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", keyStoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
+            System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", keystorePass);
+        }
+    }
+
     protected void configureLocalStorage(final Map<String, Object> params) throws ConfigurationException {
         String localStoragePath = (String)params.get(LOCAL_STORAGE_PATH);
         if (localStoragePath == null) {