diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0c574db23911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages, intltool, libvirt, libxml2Python, curl }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+let version = "0.600.1"; in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "virtinst-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "db342cf93aae1f23df02001bdb0b0cc2c5bf675dca37b4417f5a79bf5a374716";
+  };
+
+  pythonPath = with pythonPackages;
+    [ setuptools eventlet greenlet gflags netaddr sqlalchemy carrot routes
+      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy boto_1_9 twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
+      distutils_extra simplejson readline glance cheetah lockfile httplib2
+      # !!! should libvirt be a build-time dependency?  Note that
+      # libxml2Python is a dependency of libvirt.py. 
+      libvirt libxml2Python
+    ];
+
+  buildInputs =
+    [ pythonPackages.python 
+      pythonPackages.wrapPython
+      pythonPackages.mox
+      intltool
+    ] ++ pythonPath;
+
+  buildPhase = "python setup.py build";
+
+  PYTHON_EGG_CACHE = "`pwd`/.egg-cache";
+
+#      substituteInPlace nova/api/ec2/cloud.py \
+#        --replace 'sh genrootca.sh' $out/libexec/nova/genrootca.sh
+#    '';
+
+  installPhase =
+    ''    
+       python setup.py install --prefix="$out";
+    '';
+
+  #checkPhase = "python setup.py test";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://virt-manager.org;
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [qknight];
+    description = "The Virt Install tool (virt-install for short command name, virtinst for package name) is a command line tool which provides an easy way to provision operating systems into virtual machines.";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ec9857aee3b5..245292fb10fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7650,7 +7650,7 @@ let
 
   virtviewer = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/virt-viewer {};
   virtmanager = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/virt-manager {};
-  #virtinst = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/virtinst {};
+  virtinst = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/virtinst {};
 
   virtualgl = callPackage ../tools/X11/virtualgl { };