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+# Installing toit
+
+The test suite requires Python 3.3 and relies on a number of other packages. These need to be installed for the test suite to function.
+To install Python 3.3 in CentOS 7, an additional repository, Software Collections (see https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33)
+should be enabled.
+
+Install the requirements as specified below.
+
+---
+## Enable Software Collections (SCL)
+
+```bash
+yum -y install scl-utils
+yum -y install https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33/epel-7-x86_64/download/rhscl-python33-epel-7-x86_64.noarch.rpm
+```
+
+## System packages
+
+There are a number of packages that must be installed using `yum`. These can be installed like so:
+
+```bash
+yum -y --exclude=python33-mod_wsgi* install python33-* pciutils
+```
+
+---
+
+## Python 3 Packages
+
+To avoid file permission errors and Python version issues, use virtualenv to create an isolated environment with Python3.
+The required Python 3 packages can be found in the `requirements.txt` file in the root of the test suite.
+They can be installed in your virtual environment like so:
+
+```bash
+scl enable python33 bash
+# Create virtual environment
+virtualenv vsperfenv
+cd vsperfenv
+source bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+You need to activate the virtual environment everytime you start a new shell session.
+To activate, simple run:
+
+```bash
+scl enable python33 bash
+cd vsperfenv
+source bin/activate
+```
+
+---
+
+# Working Behind a Proxy
+
+If you're behind a proxy, you'll likely want to configure this before running any of the above. For example:
+
+```bash
+export http_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
+export https_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
+```
+
+---