diff --git a/elements/opensuse/bin/map-services b/elements/opensuse/bin/map-services
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f7e4e917
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/opensuse/bin/map-services
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+# Copyright 2014 SUSE, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+# Manually maintained for brevity; consider making this compiled from
+# distromatch or other rich data sources.
+# Debian name on the left, openSUSE on the right.
+service_map = {
+        'mysqld': 'mysql',
+    }
+
+for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
+    # We need to support the service name being different when installing from
+    # source vs. packages. So, if the requested service file already exists,
+    # just use that.
+    if os.path.exists('/usr/lib/systemd/system/%s.service' % arg):
+        print arg
+    else:
+        print(service_map.get(arg, arg))
+sys.exit(0)