note about fabbing in venv

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 ## Completing the Virtual Machine with Fabric
 
+*Notice* Fabric might not run properly if you presently in a virtualenv.
+`deactivate` prior to running fab commands.
+
 1. On the virtual machine, type `cd karmanotes` to get into the code repository.
 
 1. In the code repo of the VM, type `fab -H 127.0.0.1 first_deploy`