diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/client.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/client.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..84858c416c88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/client.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ fetchurl, pythonPackages }:
+
+pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "novaclient-2.4.3";
+  namePrefix = "";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-novaclient/python-${name}.tar.gz";
+    md5 = "c4be4adf371d1a84ce1581af365a53d0";
+  };
+
+  pythonPath = [ pythonPackages.prettytable pythonPackages.argparse pythonPackages.httplib2 pythonPackages.ssl ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ pythonPackages.mock pythonPackages.nose ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/rackspace/python-novaclient;
+    description = "Client library and command line tool for the OpenStack Nova API";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 37e352dc42aa..cc4c1305da75 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6701,6 +6701,8 @@ let
 
   nova = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/nova { };
 
+  novaclient = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/nova/client.nix { };
+
   nvi = callPackage ../applications/editors/nvi { };
 
   ocrad = callPackage ../applications/graphics/ocrad { };