diff -r 5be7a80d0696 -r 37bfcaa1792d cubicweb/cwconfig.py
--- a/cubicweb/cwconfig.py	Tue Jan 29 14:04:28 2019 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/cwconfig.py	Tue Feb 12 11:38:19 2019 +0100
@@ -49,12 +49,9 @@
 Within virtual environment
 ``````````````````````````
 
-If you are not administrator of you machine or if you need to play with some
-specific version of |cubicweb| you can use virtualenv_ a tool to create
-isolated Python environments.
-
-- instances are stored in :file:`<VIRTUAL_ENV>/etc/cubicweb.d`
-- temporary files (such as pid file) in :file:`<VIRTUAL_ENV>/var/run/cubicweb`
+When installed within a virtualenv, CubicWeb will look for instances data as in
+user mode by default, that is in $HOME/etc/cubicweb.d. However the
+CW_INSTANCES_DIR environment variable should be preferably used.
 
 .. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv