diff --git a/bin/nova-api-ec2 b/bin/nova-api-ec2
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# 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.
+
+"""Starter script for Nova API.
+
+Starts both the EC2 and OpenStack APIs in separate greenthreads.
+
+"""
+
+import eventlet
+eventlet.monkey_patch()
+
+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)
+
+
+from nova import flags
+from nova import log as logging
+from nova import service
+from nova import utils
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    utils.default_flagfile()
+    flags.FLAGS(sys.argv)
+    logging.setup()
+    server = service.WSGIService('ec2')
+    service.serve(server)
+    service.wait()
diff --git a/bin/nova-api-os b/bin/nova-api-os
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# 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.
+
+"""Starter script for Nova API.
+
+Starts both the EC2 and OpenStack APIs in separate greenthreads.
+
+"""
+
+import eventlet
+eventlet.monkey_patch()
+
+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)
+
+
+from nova import flags
+from nova import log as logging
+from nova import service
+from nova import utils
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    utils.default_flagfile()
+    flags.FLAGS(sys.argv)
+    logging.setup()
+    server = service.WSGIService('osapi')
+    service.serve(server)
+    service.wait()