diff --git a/shared/cfg/base.cfg b/shared/cfg/base.cfg
index 5d2ed2fb84..1850b4d2ad 100644
--- a/shared/cfg/base.cfg
+++ b/shared/cfg/base.cfg
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ Linux:
     stress_install_from_repo = "no"
     # param for stress tests
     stress_args = '--cpu 4 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 256M'
-    download_url_stress = 'http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz'
+    download_url_stress = 'stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz'
 
     # param to enable/disable sosreport for guest
     enable_guest_sosreport = "no"
diff --git a/shared/deps/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz b/shared/deps/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2d0b2e1fb
Binary files /dev/null and b/shared/deps/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz differ
diff --git a/virttest/utils_test/__init__.py b/virttest/utils_test/__init__.py
index ff691a6478..c22fe4f71f 100755
--- a/virttest/utils_test/__init__.py
+++ b/virttest/utils_test/__init__.py
@@ -2089,6 +2089,8 @@ def __init__(self, stress_type, params, download_url="", make_cmds="",
             "stress_install_from_repo") == "yes"
         self.download_url = self.params.get('download_url_%s' % stress_type,
                                             download_url)
+        if not aurl.is_url(self.download_url) and not os.path.isabs(self.download_url):
+            self.download_url = utils_misc.get_path(data_dir.DEPS_DIR, self.download_url)
         self.download_type = self.params.get('download_type_%s' % stress_type,
                                              download_type)
         self.base_name = self.download_url.split("/")[-1]