$ mkdir bugtest $ cd bugtest $ virtualenv --python=python2.7 env_p27 Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2.7 New python executable in env_p27/bin/python2.7 Also creating executable in env_p27/bin/python Please make sure you remove any previous custom paths from your /home/luke/.pydistutils.cfg file. Installing setuptools, pip...done. $ source env_p27/bin/activate $ pip install Django==1.7.1 Downloading/unpacking Django==1.7.1 Using download cache from /home/luke/.pip/cache/https%3A%2F%2Fpypi.python.org%2Fpackages%2Fpy2.py3%2FD%2FDjango%2FDjango-1.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: Django Successfully installed Django Cleaning up... $ django-admin.py startproject migrationsbug $ cd migrationsbug $ ./manage.py startapp test1 $ cat > test1/models.py from django.db import models class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField("First Name", max_length=255, blank=True) ^D $ perl -n -i -p -e 's/INSTALLED_APPS = \(/INSTALLED_APPS = \("test1",/' migrationsbug/settings.py $ ./manage.py makemigrations test1 Migrations for 'test1': 0001_initial.py: - Create model MyModel $ cd ../ $ deactivate $ virtualenv --python=python3.4 env_p34 Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3.4 Using base prefix '/usr' New python executable in env_p34/bin/python3.4 Also creating executable in env_p34/bin/python Please make sure you remove any previous custom paths from your /home/luke/.pydistutils.cfg file. Installing setuptools, pip...done. $ source env_p34/bin/activate $ pip install Django==1.7.1 Downloading/unpacking Django==1.7.1 Using download cache from /home/luke/.pip/cache/https%3A%2F%2Fpypi.python.org%2Fpackages%2Fpy2.py3%2FD%2FDjango%2FDjango-1.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: Django Successfully installed Django Cleaning up... $ cd migrationsbug $./manage.py makemigrations test1 Migrations for 'test1': 0002_auto_20141211_1527.py: - Alter field name on mymodel