diff --git a/ansible/test-files/docker-python/Dockerfile b/ansible/test-files/docker-python/Dockerfile
index 23d9907894..e83faf3d6e 100644
--- a/ansible/test-files/docker-python/Dockerfile
+++ b/ansible/test-files/docker-python/Dockerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ RUN apt-get install -qy curl git python2.7 python-pip python-dev
 # this is a workaround, to make sure that docker's cache is invalidated whenever the git repo changes
 ADD https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/pyethereum/git/refs/heads/develop unused.txt 
 
-RUN git clone --branch develop https://github.com/ethereum/pyethereum.git
+RUN git clone --branch develop --recursive https://github.com/ethereum/pyethereum.git
 
 RUN cd pyethereum && curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/bootstrap-buildout.py | python
 
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ RUN cd pyethereum && bin/buildout
 #default port for incoming requests
 EXPOSE 30303
 
-WORKDIR /pyethereum/bin 
+WORKDIR /pyethereum 
 
-ENTRYPOINT ["./python", "../tests/test_vm.py"]
+ENTRYPOINT ["bin/python", "tests/test_vm.py"]