diff --git a/test/integration/targets/filters/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/filters/runme.sh
index e1e1333cac..d2a38f5900 100755
--- a/test/integration/targets/filters/runme.sh
+++ b/test/integration/targets/filters/runme.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -ex
-virtualenv --system-site-packages --python "${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER}" "${OUTPUT_DIR}/venv"
-source "${OUTPUT_DIR}/venv/bin/activate"
 set -eux
 
+source virtualenv.sh
+
 # Requirements have to be installed prior to running ansible-playbook
 # because plugins and requirements are loaded before the task runs
 
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/groupby_filter/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/groupby_filter/runme.sh
index f65cc008f6..e5099aa1b7 100755
--- a/test/integration/targets/groupby_filter/runme.sh
+++ b/test/integration/targets/groupby_filter/runme.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# We don't set -u here, due to pypa/virtualenv#150
-set -ex
+set -eux
 
-MYTMPDIR=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t 'mytmpdir')
-
-trap 'rm -rf "${MYTMPDIR}"' EXIT
-
-virtualenv --system-site-packages --python "${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER}" "${MYTMPDIR}/jinja2"
-
-source "${MYTMPDIR}/jinja2/bin/activate"
+source virtualenv.sh
 
 pip install -U jinja2==2.9.4
 
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/inventory_aws_conformance/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/inventory_aws_conformance/runme.sh
index c4208d1fdf..a57e13ec39 100755
--- a/test/integration/targets/inventory_aws_conformance/runme.sh
+++ b/test/integration/targets/inventory_aws_conformance/runme.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -ex
+set -eux
+
+source virtualenv.sh
 
-virtualenv --system-site-packages --python "${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER:-python}" "${OUTPUT_DIR}/aws-ec2-inventory"
-source "${OUTPUT_DIR}/aws-ec2-inventory/bin/activate"
 pip install "python-dateutil>=2.1,<2.7.0" jmespath "Jinja2>=2.10" PyYaml cryptography paramiko
 
 # create boto3 symlinks
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/lookups/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/lookups/runme.sh
index a54fbfd4a8..77a73b9975 100755
--- a/test/integration/targets/lookups/runme.sh
+++ b/test/integration/targets/lookups/runme.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -ex
-virtualenv --system-site-packages --python "${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER}" "${OUTPUT_DIR}/venv"
-source "${OUTPUT_DIR}/venv/bin/activate"
 set -eux
 
+source virtualenv.sh
+
 # Requirements have to be installed prior to running ansible-playbook
 # because plugins and requirements are loaded before the task runs
 pip install passlib
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/template_jinja2_latest/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/template_jinja2_latest/runme.sh
index 88df296224..78dcf36fcd 100755
--- a/test/integration/targets/template_jinja2_latest/runme.sh
+++ b/test/integration/targets/template_jinja2_latest/runme.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# We don't set -u here, due to pypa/virtualenv#150
-set -ex
+set -eux
 
-MYTMPDIR=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t 'mytmpdir')
-
-trap 'rm -rf "${MYTMPDIR}"' EXIT
-
-virtualenv --system-site-packages --python "${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER}" "${MYTMPDIR}/jinja2"
-
-source "${MYTMPDIR}/jinja2/bin/activate"
+source virtualenv.sh
 
 pip install -U jinja2
 
diff --git a/test/runner/injector/virtualenv.sh b/test/runner/injector/virtualenv.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c6633a2521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runner/injector/virtualenv.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Create and activate a fresh virtual environment with `source virtualenv.sh`.
+
+rm -rf "${OUTPUT_DIR}/venv"
+"${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER}" -m virtualenv --system-site-packages --python "${ANSIBLE_TEST_PYTHON_INTERPRETER}" "${OUTPUT_DIR}/venv"