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authorMax Illfelder <illfelder@google.com>2016-06-13 17:23:48 -0700
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Compute Engine [images](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images).
* [Metadata Scripts](#metadata-scripts)
* [Configuration](#configuration)
* [Packaging](#packaging)
+* [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [License](#license)
@@ -271,6 +272,15 @@ The package build tools are published. The tools are run on a GCE VM to build
release packages, and the output deb and rpm packages are included in our
GitHub releases.
+## Troubleshooting
+
+**Using boto with virtualenv**
+
+Specific to running `boto` inside of a Python
+[`virtualenv`](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/),
+specify `--system-site-packages` when creating any virtual environment. This
+enables use of the Linux guest environmment package during setup.
+
## Contributing
Have a patch that will benefit this project? Awesome! Follow these steps to have