Fix for bug 803186 that fixes the ability for nova-api to run from a source checkout.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/nova-api b/bin/nova-api
index ea99a1b48..fff67251f 100755
--- a/bin/nova-api
+++ b/bin/nova-api
@@ -23,8 +23,14 @@ Starts both the EC2 and OpenStack APIs in separate processes.
 
 """
 
+import os
 import sys
 
+possible_topdir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(
+        sys.argv[0]), os.pardir, os.pardir))
+if os.path.exists(os.path.join(possible_topdir, "nova", "__init__.py")):
+    sys.path.insert(0, possible_topdir)
+
 import nova.service
 import nova.utils