diff --git a/doc/install-guide/section_nova-compute-install.xml b/doc/install-guide/section_nova-compute-install.xml
index 66aca971da..25bcc8cb7f 100644
--- a/doc/install-guide/section_nova-compute-install.xml
+++ b/doc/install-guide/section_nova-compute-install.xml
@@ -211,8 +211,7 @@ virt_type = qemu</programlisting>
       <para>Start the Compute service including its dependencies and configure
         them to start automatically when the system boots:</para>
       <screen os="rhel;centos;fedora"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl enable libvirtd.service openstack-nova-compute.service</userinput>
-<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl start libvirtd.service</userinput>
-<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl start openstack-nova-compute.service</userinput></screen>
+<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl start libvirtd.service openstack-nova-compute.service</userinput></screen>
       <para os="sles">On SLES:</para>
       <screen os="sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service libvirtd start</userinput>
 <prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig libvirtd on</userinput>
@@ -220,8 +219,7 @@ virt_type = qemu</programlisting>
 <prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig openstack-nova-compute on</userinput></screen>
       <para os="opensuse">On openSUSE:</para>
       <screen os="opensuse"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl enable libvirtd.service openstack-nova-compute.service</userinput>
-<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl start libvirtd.service</userinput>
-<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl start openstack-nova-compute.service</userinput></screen>
+<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>systemctl start libvirtd.service openstack-nova-compute.service</userinput></screen>
     </step>
     <step os="ubuntu">
       <para>By default, the Ubuntu packages create an SQLite database.</para>