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-h1. Prerequisites
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-The openstack repo should be made available:
-see: http://docs.openstack.org/cactus/openstack-compute/admin/content/installing-the-cloud-controller.html
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-This is currently known not to work on 2.6.4.
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-Master of this repo is now targetting the essex version of openstack.
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-For Diablo support, try the diablo branch of this repo