diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/ubuntu/compute.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/ubuntu/compute.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..925eba83e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/ubuntu/compute.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+openssh-server
+ntp
+gawk
+nfs-common
+snmpd