diff --git a/Authors b/Authors
index fb6f98e02b7d..304eb2667c87 100644
--- a/Authors
+++ b/Authors
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
 Dave Lapsley <dlapsley@nicira.com>
 Dave Walker <Dave.Walker@canonical.com>
 David Pravec <David.Pravec@danix.org>
+David Shrewsbury <shrewsbury.dave@gmail.com>
 David Subiros <david.perez5@hp.com>
 Dean Troyer <dtroyer@gmail.com>
 Deepak Garg <deepak.garg@citrix.com>
diff --git a/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py b/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py
index ea0e60573dc8..cffd22661485 100644
--- a/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py
+++ b/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ class LibvirtDriver(driver.ComputeDriver):
 
         if FLAGS.libvirt_type == "lxc":
             fs = config.LibvirtConfigGuestFilesys()
-            fs.type = "mount"
+            fs.source_type = "mount"
             fs.source_dir = os.path.join(FLAGS.instances_path,
                                          instance['name'],
                                          "rootfs")