diff --git a/Vagrantfile.fedora b/Vagrantfile.fedora
index 4863808ee51..f0099721521 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile.fedora
+++ b/Vagrantfile.fedora
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # vi: set ft=ruby :
 
 Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
-  config.vm.box = "fedora-40"
+  config.vm.box = "fedora-41"
   # For URL, check https://www.fedoraproject.org/cloud/download
-  config.vm.box_url = "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/40/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-Vagrant-libvirt.x86_64-40-1.14.vagrant.libvirt.box"
+  config.vm.box_url = "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/41/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-Vagrant-libvirt-41-1.4.x86_64.vagrant.libvirt.box"
   config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
     v.memory = 2048
     v.cpus = 2
@@ -15,18 +15,12 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   end
   config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
     set -e -u -o pipefail
-    # Work around dnf mirror failures by retrying a few times
+    DNF_OPTS="-y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs --exclude=kernel,kernel-core"
+    RPMS="bats git-core glibc-static golang jq libseccomp-devel make"
+    # Work around dnf mirror failures by retrying a few times.
     for i in $(seq 0 2); do
       sleep $i
-      # "config exclude" dnf shell command is not working in Fedora 35
-      # (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022571);
-      # the workaround is to specify it as an option.
-      cat << EOF | dnf -y --exclude=kernel,kernel-core shell && break
-config install_weak_deps false
-update
-install iptables gcc golang-go make glibc-static libseccomp-devel bats jq git-core criu fuse-sshfs container-selinux
-ts run
-EOF
+      dnf $DNF_OPTS update && dnf $DNF_OPTS install $RPMS && break
     done
     dnf clean all