diff --git a/cloud.spec b/cloud.spec
index 386e0beea41..17b4e841868 100644
--- a/cloud.spec
+++ b/cloud.spec
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ Obsoletes: %{name}-premium-vendor-zynga < %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: java >= 1.6.0
 Requires: %{name}-utils = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: %{name}-premium-deps
+# there is a fsimage.so in the source code, which adds xen-libs as a dependence, needs to supress it, as rhel doesn't have this pacakge
+AutoReqProv: no
 License:   CSL 1.1
 Group:     System Environment/Libraries
 %description premium
diff --git a/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/init.d/cloud-early-config b/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/init.d/cloud-early-config
index 34d54edcf59..e3f245e6c69 100755
--- a/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/init.d/cloud-early-config
+++ b/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/init.d/cloud-early-config
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ setup_common() {
   then 
     ip route add default via $GW dev $3
   else
-    ip route add default via $GW dev eth1
+    ip route add default via $GW dev eth0
   fi
 }
 
diff --git a/wscript_configure b/wscript_configure
index 6bed5734ada..6a8f866034b 100644
--- a/wscript_configure
+++ b/wscript_configure
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ systemjars = {
 		"tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.26.jar",
 		#"tomcat6/catalina.jar", # all supported distros put the file there
 	),
+	'RHEL6':
+	(
+		"tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api.jar",
+		"tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24.jar",
+		"tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24.jar",
+	),
 	'CentOS':
 	(
 		"tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api.jar",
@@ -100,12 +106,17 @@ if Options.platform == 'win32': conf.env.DISTRO = "Windows"
 elif Options.platform == 'darwin': conf.env.DISTRO = "Mac"
 elif _exists("/etc/network"): conf.env.DISTRO = "Ubuntu"
 elif _exists("/etc/fedora-release"): conf.env.DISTRO = "Fedora"
-elif _exists("/etc/centos-release") or _exists("/etc/redhat-release"): conf.env.DISTRO = "CentOS"
+elif _exists("/etc/centos-release"): conf.env.DISTRO = "CentOS"
+elif _exists("/etc/redhat-release"):
+    version = file("/etc/redhat-release").readline()
+    if version.find("Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6") != -1:
+        conf.env.DISTRO = RHEL6
+    elif version.find("Centos release") != -1:
+        conf.env.DISTRO = CentOS
 else: conf.env.DISTRO = "unknown"
 if conf.env.DISTRO == "unknown": c = "YELLOW"
 else: 				    c = "GREEN"
 conf.check_message_2(conf.env.DISTRO,c)
-
 conf.check_message_1('Detecting installation prefix')
 if Options.options.prefix == Options.default_prefix:
 	if conf.env.DISTRO == 'Windows':