diff --git a/manifests/compute.pp b/manifests/compute.pp
index 2dfa8a20..9b79af30 100644
--- a/manifests/compute.pp
+++ b/manifests/compute.pp
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ class cloud::compute(
     log_dir             => $log_dir,
     log_facility        => $log_facility,
     use_syslog          => $use_syslog,
+    nova_shell          => '/bin/bash',
   }
 
   class { 'nova::network::neutron':
diff --git a/spec/classes/cloud_compute_hypervisor_spec.rb b/spec/classes/cloud_compute_hypervisor_spec.rb
index f579f089..c8c170f7 100644
--- a/spec/classes/cloud_compute_hypervisor_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/classes/cloud_compute_hypervisor_spec.rb
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ describe 'cloud::compute::hypervisor' do
           :memcached_servers       => ['10.0.0.1','10.0.0.2'],
           :database_connection     => 'mysql://nova:secrete@10.0.0.1/nova?charset=utf8',
           :glance_api_servers      => 'http://10.0.0.1:9292',
-          :log_dir                 => false
+          :log_dir                 => false,
+          :nova_shell              => '/bin/bash'
         )
       should contain_nova_config('DEFAULT/resume_guests_state_on_host_boot').with('value' => true)
       should contain_nova_config('DEFAULT/default_availability_zone').with('value' => 'MyZone')