diff --git a/manifests/api.pp b/manifests/api.pp
index edc6abb68..0fa5c9875 100644
--- a/manifests/api.pp
+++ b/manifests/api.pp
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ class nova::api(
   $admin_user        = 'nova',
   $admin_password    = 'passw0rd',
   $api_bind_address  = '0.0.0.0',
-  $enabled_apis      = 'ec2,osapi_compute,metadata'
+  $enabled_apis      = 'ec2,osapi_compute,metadata',
+  $volume_api_class  = 'nova.volume.cinder.API'
 ) {
 
   include nova::params
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ class nova::api(
   nova_config {
     'api_paste_config':     value => '/etc/nova/api-paste.ini';
     'enabled_apis':         value => $enabled_apis;
-    'volume_api_class':     value => 'nova.volume.cinder.API';
+    'volume_api_class':     value => $volume_api_class;
     'ec2_listen':           value => $api_bind_address;
     'osapi_compute_listen': value => $api_bind_address;
     'metadata_listen':      value => $api_bind_address;
diff --git a/spec/classes/nova_api_spec.rb b/spec/classes/nova_api_spec.rb
index 6bae49059..ab1f958c2 100644
--- a/spec/classes/nova_api_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/classes/nova_api_spec.rb
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ describe 'nova::api' do
           :admin_user        => 'nova2',
           :admin_password    => 'passw0rd2',
           :api_bind_address  => '192.168.56.210',
+          :volume_api_class  => 'nova.volume.cinder.API'
         }
       end
       it 'should use default params for api-paste.init' do
diff --git a/spec/classes/nova_init_spec.rb b/spec/classes/nova_init_spec.rb
index 9a7f7e0c2..745d56077 100644
--- a/spec/classes/nova_init_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/classes/nova_init_spec.rb
@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ describe 'nova' do
     it { should contain_nova_config('lock_path').with_value('/var/lock/nova') }
     it { should contain_nova_config('service_down_time').with_value('60') }
     it { should contain_nova_config('rootwrap_config').with_value('/etc/nova/rootwrap.conf') }
-
-
+    
 
     describe 'with parameters supplied' do