diff --git a/files/rpms/nova b/files/rpms/nova
index 45f1c94..a368c55 100644
--- a/files/rpms/nova
+++ b/files/rpms/nova
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 iputils
 kernel-modules # dist:f23,f24,f25
 kpartx
-kvm # NOPRIME
-libvirt-bin # NOPRIME
-libvirt-devel # NOPRIME
-libvirt-python # NOPRIME
 libxml2-python
 m2crypto
 mysql-devel
@@ -21,7 +17,6 @@
 numpy # needed by websockify for spice console
 parted
 polkit
-qemu-kvm # NOPRIME
 rabbitmq-server # NOPRIME
 sqlite
 sudo
diff --git a/lib/neutron b/lib/neutron
index 19568ea..f277062 100644
--- a/lib/neutron
+++ b/lib/neutron
@@ -395,9 +395,9 @@
         service_protocol="http"
     fi
 
-    local opts = ""
-    opts+="--config-file $NEUTRON_CONF"
-    opts+="--config-file $NEUTRON_CORE_PLUGIN_CONF"
+    local opts=""
+    opts+=" --config-file $NEUTRON_CONF"
+    opts+=" --config-file $NEUTRON_CORE_PLUGIN_CONF"
     local cfg_file
     for cfg_file in ${_NEUTRON_SERVER_EXTRA_CONF_FILES_ABS[@]}; do
         opts+=" --config-file $cfg_file"
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
 
     # Start the Neutron service
     # TODO(sc68cal) Stop hard coding this
-    run_process neutron-api "$NEUTRON_BIN_DIR/neutron-server $ops"
+    run_process neutron-api "$NEUTRON_BIN_DIR/neutron-server $opts"
 
     if is_ssl_enabled_service "neutron"; then
         ssl_ca="--ca-certificate=${SSL_BUNDLE_FILE}"
@@ -510,7 +510,10 @@
     local plugins=""
 
     plugins=$(iniget $NEUTRON_CONF DEFAULT service_plugins)
-    plugins+=",${service_plugin_class}"
+    if [ $plugins ]; then
+        plugins+=","
+    fi
+    plugins+="${service_plugin_class}"
     iniset $NEUTRON_CONF DEFAULT service_plugins $plugins
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/nova b/lib/nova
index f5ab201..0ce6699 100644
--- a/lib/nova
+++ b/lib/nova
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
     sudo rm -f $(apache_site_config_for nova-metadata)
 }
 
-# _config_nova_apache_wsgi() - Set WSGI config files of Keystone
+# _config_nova_apache_wsgi() - Set WSGI config files of Nova API
 function _config_nova_apache_wsgi {
     sudo mkdir -p $NOVA_WSGI_DIR
 
@@ -704,9 +704,13 @@
         recreate_database nova
         recreate_database nova_cell0
 
-        # Migrate nova database. If "nova-manage cell_v2 simple_cell_setup" has
-        # been run this migrates the "nova" and "nova_cell0" database.
-        # Otherwise it just migrates the "nova" database.
+        # map_cell0 will create the cell mapping record in the nova_api DB so
+        # this needs to come after the api_db sync happens. We also want to run
+        # this before the db sync below since that will migrate both the nova
+        # and nova_cell0 databases.
+        nova-manage cell_v2 map_cell0 --database_connection `database_connection_url nova_cell0`
+
+        # Migrate nova and nova_cell0 databases.
         $NOVA_BIN_DIR/nova-manage --config-file $NOVA_CONF db sync
 
         if is_service_enabled n-cell; then
@@ -966,9 +970,6 @@
 
 # create_cell(): Group the available hosts into a cell
 function create_cell {
-    # NOTE(danms): map_cell0 always returns 1 right now; remove this when that is fixed
-    (nova-manage cell_v2 map_cell0 --database_connection `database_connection_url nova_cell0`|| true)
-
     if ! is_service_enabled n-cell; then
         nova-manage cell_v2 simple_cell_setup --transport-url $(get_transport_url)
     else
diff --git a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
index 47b054b..d225ef8 100644
--- a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
+++ b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
@@ -34,18 +34,23 @@
         #pip_install_gr <there-si-no-guestfs-in-pypi>
     elif is_fedora || is_suse; then
         # On "KVM for IBM z Systems", kvm does not have its own package
-        if [[ ! ${DISTRO} =~ "kvmibm1" ]]; then
+        if [[ ! ${DISTRO} =~ "kvmibm1" && ! ${DISTRO} =~ "rhel7" ]]; then
             install_package kvm
         fi
-        # there is a dependency issue with kvm (which is really just a
-        # wrapper to qemu-system-x86) that leaves some bios files out,
-        # so install qemu-kvm (which shouldn't strictly be needed, as
-        # everything has been merged into qemu-system-x86) to bring in
-        # the right packages. see
-        # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235890
-        install_package qemu-kvm
+
+        if [[ ${DISTRO} =~ "rhel7" ]]; then
+            # On centos7 install the qemu-kvm-ev package, which is a
+            # later version of qemu-kvm rebuilt from the qemu-kvm-rhev
+            # package by the virt SIG (as required by nova).  This
+            # package is only provided for RHOS (openstack) or RHV
+            # (ovirt) in RHEL.  We have already insalled the RDO
+            # repositories which provide this.
+            install_package qemu-kvm-ev
+        fi
+
         install_package libvirt libvirt-devel
         pip_install_gr libvirt-python
+
     fi
 }
 
diff --git a/stack.sh b/stack.sh
index 94315e1..2f43db7 100755
--- a/stack.sh
+++ b/stack.sh
@@ -761,6 +761,7 @@
 run_phase stack pre-install
 
 install_rpc_backend
+restart_rpc_backend
 
 # NOTE(sdague): dlm install is conditional on one being enabled by configuration
 install_dlm
@@ -952,11 +953,6 @@
 fi
 
 
-# Finalize queue installation
-# ----------------------------
-restart_rpc_backend
-
-
 # Export Certificate Authority Bundle
 # -----------------------------------
 
diff --git a/stackrc b/stackrc
index 9673074..46b8747 100644
--- a/stackrc
+++ b/stackrc
@@ -636,9 +636,6 @@
         IMAGE_URLS+=","
     fi
     case "$VIRT_DRIVER" in
-        openvz)
-            DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME=${DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME:-ubuntu-12.04-x86_64}
-            IMAGE_URLS+="http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-12.04-x86_64.tar.gz";;
         libvirt)
             case "$LIBVIRT_TYPE" in
                 lxc) # the cirros root disk in the uec tarball is empty, so it will not work for lxc
@@ -656,13 +653,6 @@
             DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME=${DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME:-cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-disk}
             IMAGE_URLS+="http://ca.downloads.xensource.com/OpenStack/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-disk.vhd.tgz"
             IMAGE_URLS+=",http://download.cirros-cloud.net/${CIRROS_VERSION}/cirros-${CIRROS_VERSION}-x86_64-uec.tar.gz";;
-        ironic)
-            # NOTE(lucasagomes): The logic setting the default image
-            # now lives in the Ironic tree
-            ;;
-        *) # Default to Cirros qcow2 image file
-            DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME=${DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME:-cirros-${CIRROS_VERSION}-${CIRROS_ARCH}-disk.img}
-            IMAGE_URLS+="http://download.cirros-cloud.net/${CIRROS_VERSION}/cirros-${CIRROS_VERSION}-${CIRROS_ARCH}-disk.img";;
     esac
     DOWNLOAD_DEFAULT_IMAGES=False
 fi