diff --git a/bin/nova-compute b/bin/nova-compute
index 5635efba..63d57a76 100755
--- a/bin/nova-compute
+++ b/bin/nova-compute
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from nova import flags
 from nova import rpc
 from nova import twistd
 from nova.compute import node
+from nova.objectstore import image # For the images_path flag
 
 
 FLAGS = flags.FLAGS