Based on a patch by Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com>

RH: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562176
Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/517478
Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573172