diff --git a/make_env b/make_env
index a6fc7cc32f54bdef532af51d1b08ab7277aeaf1b..e628f39b96207b36b172f192d934db32bc4555f5 100755
--- a/make_env
+++ b/make_env
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ set -e
 DEFAULT_PYTHON_VER=3.6
 PYTHON_VER=${1:-$DEFAULT_PYTHON_VER}
 #
-virtualenv -p python${PYTHON_VER} env
+python${PYTHON_VER} -m venv env
 #
 source env/bin/activate
 #