diff --git a/attributes/default.rb b/attributes/default.rb
index d6e149f1..35b82781 100644
--- a/attributes/default.rb
+++ b/attributes/default.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ default["developer_mode"] = false  # we want secure passwords by default
 ########################################################################
 
 default["nova"]["apply_patches"] = true
+
 default["nova"]["db"]["name"] = "nova"
 default["nova"]["db"]["username"] = "nova"
 
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ default["nova"]["network"]["fixed_range"] = default["nova"]["networks"][0]["ipv4
 default["nova"]["network"]["dmz_cidr"] = "10.128.0.0/24"
 default["nova"]["network"]["network_manager"] = "nova.network.manager.FlatDHCPManager"
 
-default["nova"]["scheduler"]["scheduler_driver"] = "nova.scheduler.filter_scheduler.FilterScheduler"
+#default["nova"]["scheduler"]["scheduler_driver"] = "nova.scheduler.filter_scheduler.FilterScheduler"
+default["nova"]["scheduler"]["scheduler_driver"] = "nova.scheduler.simple.SimpleScheduler"
 default["nova"]["scheduler"]["default_filters"] = ["AvailabilityZoneFilter",
                                                    "RamFilter",
                                                    "ComputeFilter",
diff --git a/recipes/scheduler.rb b/recipes/scheduler.rb
index 423f7a56..246e2c84 100644
--- a/recipes/scheduler.rb
+++ b/recipes/scheduler.rb
@@ -51,4 +51,4 @@ monitoring_procmon "nova-scheduler" do
   stop_cmd "/usr/sbin/service #{service_name} stop"
 end
 
-include_recipe "nova::nova-scheduler-patch"
+#include_recipe "nova::nova-scheduler-patch"