diff --git a/bootstrapvz/base/manifest.py b/bootstrapvz/base/manifest.py
index 0ad10d6..370f952 100644
--- a/bootstrapvz/base/manifest.py
+++ b/bootstrapvz/base/manifest.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ invocations should have etc..
 .. module:: manifest
 """
 from bootstrapvz.common.tools import load_json
+from bootstrapvz.common.tools import load_yaml
 import logging
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -34,7 +35,11 @@ class Manifest(object):
 		"""
 		# Load the manifest JSON using the loader in common.tools
 		# It strips comments (which are invalid in strict json) before loading the data.
-		self.data = load_json(self.path)
+		if self.path.endswith('.json'):
+			self.data = load_json(self.path)
+		elif self.path.endswith('.yml') or self.path.endswith('.yaml'):
+			self.data = load_yaml(self.path)
+
 		# Get the provider name from the manifest and load the corresponding module
 		provider_modname = 'bootstrapvz.providers.{provider}'.format(provider=self.data['provider'])
 		log.debug('Loading provider `{modname}\''.format(modname=provider_modname))
diff --git a/bootstrapvz/common/tools.py b/bootstrapvz/common/tools.py
index 8721144..f392f35 100644
--- a/bootstrapvz/common/tools.py
+++ b/bootstrapvz/common/tools.py
@@ -64,13 +64,20 @@ def load_json(path):
 		return json.loads(json_minify(stream.read(), False))
 
 
+def load_yaml(path):
+	import yaml
+	with open(path, 'r') as fobj:
+		return yaml.load(fobj)
+
+
 def config_get(path, config_path):
 	config = load_json(path)
 	for key in config_path:
 		config = config.get(key)
 	return config
 
-def copy_tree(from_path,to_path):
+
+def copy_tree(from_path, to_path):
 	from shutil import copy
 	import os
 	for abs_prefix, dirs, files in os.walk(from_path):
@@ -86,4 +93,3 @@ def copy_tree(from_path,to_path):
 		for path in files:
 			copy(os.path.join(abs_prefix, path),
 			     os.path.join(to_path, prefix, path))
-
diff --git a/manifests/ec2-ebs-debian-testing-amd64-pvm.manifest.yml b/manifests/ec2-ebs-debian-testing-amd64-pvm.manifest.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43f44b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/manifests/ec2-ebs-debian-testing-amd64-pvm.manifest.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+---
+provider: "ec2"
+virtualization: "pvm"
+credentials:
+    access-key: null
+    secret-key: null
+bootstrapper:
+    workspace: "/target"
+image:
+    name: "debian-{system.release}-{system.architecture}-{virtualization}-{%Y}-{%m}-{%d}-ebs"
+    description: "Debian {system.release} {system.architecture}"
+system:
+    release: "testing"
+    architecture: "amd64"
+    bootloader: "pvgrub"
+    timezone: "UTC"
+    locale: "en_US"
+    charmap: "UTF-8"
+packages:
+    #mirror: "http://cloudfront.debian.net/debian"
+    install_standard: true
+volume:
+    backing: "ebs"
+    partitions:
+        type: "none"
+        root:
+            size: "8GiB"
+            filesystem: "ext4"
+plugins:
+    cloud_init:
+        username: "admin"
+        #metadata_sources: "Ec2"
+        disable_modules:
+            - "landscape"
+            - "byobu"
+            - "ssh-import-id"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9bc5358..20d6568 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ setup(name='bootstrap-vz',
       install_requires=['termcolor >= 1.1.0',
                         'fysom >= 1.0.15',
                         'jsonschema >= 2.3.0',
+                        'pyyaml >= 3.10',
                         ],
       license='Apache License, Version 2.0',
       description='Bootstrap Debian images for virtualized environments',