diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
index ba5c05e97f10068a0dea9a97568ad224ae1bd126..960a8d9c049c697e8505e003e96e7cffcd089f86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
@@ -594,19 +594,21 @@ static void __init lguest_init_IRQ(void)
 		/* Some systems map "vectors" to interrupts weirdly.  Lguest has
 		 * a straightforward 1 to 1 mapping, so force that here. */
 		__get_cpu_var(vector_irq)[vector] = i;
-		if (vector != SYSCALL_VECTOR) {
-			set_intr_gate(vector,
-				      interrupt[vector-FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR]);
-			set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(i, &lguest_irq_controller,
-						      handle_level_irq,
-						      "level");
-		}
+		if (vector != SYSCALL_VECTOR)
+			set_intr_gate(vector, interrupt[i]);
 	}
 	/* This call is required to set up for 4k stacks, where we have
 	 * separate stacks for hard and soft interrupts. */
 	irq_ctx_init(smp_processor_id());
 }
 
+void lguest_setup_irq(unsigned int irq)
+{
+	irq_to_desc_alloc_cpu(irq, 0);
+	set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(irq, &lguest_irq_controller,
+				      handle_level_irq, "level");
+}
+
 /*
  * Time.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c
index b4d44e571d76efca7a3a2f52ccdcecacf2bbe23f..8132533d71f9384e3e73aca8092b02295cd75024 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c
@@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ static void lg_notify(struct virtqueue *vq)
 	hcall(LHCALL_NOTIFY, lvq->config.pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, 0, 0);
 }
 
+/* An extern declaration inside a C file is bad form.  Don't do it. */
+extern void lguest_setup_irq(unsigned int irq);
+
 /* This routine finds the first virtqueue described in the configuration of
  * this device and sets it up.
  *
@@ -266,6 +269,9 @@ static struct virtqueue *lg_find_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev,
 		goto unmap;
 	}
 
+	/* Make sure the interrupt is allocated. */
+	lguest_setup_irq(lvq->config.irq);
+
 	/* Tell the interrupt for this virtqueue to go to the virtio_ring
 	 * interrupt handler. */
 	/* FIXME: We used to have a flag for the Host to tell us we could use