diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_native.c b/src/lxc/lxc_native.c
index 1785e150c73c791c1d96fd1d7fb1f6fcfe136cc4..ecc63ded2d4d0ddeee688a74d155b5289e37e276 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxc_native.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_native.c
@@ -607,6 +607,42 @@ lxcIdmapWalkCallback(const char *name, virConfValuePtr value, void *data)
     return 0;
 }
 
+static int
+lxcSetMemTune(virDomainDefPtr def, virConfPtr properties)
+{
+    virConfValuePtr value;
+    unsigned long long size = 0;
+
+    if ((value = virConfGetValue(properties,
+                "lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes")) &&
+            value->str && STRNEQ(value->str, "-1")) {
+        if (lxcConvertSize(value->str, &size) < 0)
+            return -1;
+        size = size / 1024;
+        def->mem.max_balloon = size;
+        def->mem.hard_limit = size;
+    }
+
+    if ((value = virConfGetValue(properties,
+                "lxc.cgroup.memory.soft_limit_in_bytes")) &&
+            value->str && STRNEQ(value->str, "-1")) {
+        if (lxcConvertSize(value->str, &size) < 0)
+            return -1;
+
+        def->mem.soft_limit = size / 1024;
+    }
+
+    if ((value = virConfGetValue(properties,
+                "lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes")) &&
+            value->str && STRNEQ(value->str, "-1")) {
+        if (lxcConvertSize(value->str, &size) < 0)
+            return -1;
+
+       def->mem.swap_hard_limit = size / 1024;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
 virDomainDefPtr
 lxcParseConfigString(const char *config)
 {
@@ -679,6 +715,10 @@ lxcParseConfigString(const char *config)
     if (virConfWalk(properties, lxcIdmapWalkCallback, vmdef) < 0)
         goto error;
 
+    /* lxc.cgroup.memory.* */
+    if (lxcSetMemTune(vmdef, properties) < 0)
+        goto error;
+
     goto cleanup;
 
 error:
diff --git a/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml-memtune.config b/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml-memtune.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef07a5143d3fde66b65c99523d7dde65828b00ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml-memtune.config
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+lxc.rootfs = /var/lib/lxc/migrate_test/rootfs
+lxc.utsname = migrate_test
+lxc.autodev=1
+
+# 1GiB
+lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 1073741824
+# 128MiB
+lxc.cgroup.memory.soft_limit_in_bytes = 134217728
+# 2GiB
+lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = 2147483648
diff --git a/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml-memtune.xml b/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml-memtune.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..026435674852cf147f5567e9c007c381a3c3b6f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml-memtune.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<domain type='lxc'>
+  <name>migrate_test</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>0</currentMemory>
+  <memtune>
+    <hard_limit unit='KiB'>1048576</hard_limit>
+    <soft_limit unit='KiB'>131072</soft_limit>
+    <swap_hard_limit unit='KiB'>2097152</swap_hard_limit>
+  </memtune>
+  <vcpu placement='static' current='0'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type>exe</type>
+    <init>/sbin/init</init>
+  </os>
+  <features>
+    <privnet/>
+  </features>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
+      <source dir='/var/lib/lxc/migrate_test/rootfs'/>
+      <target dir='/'/>
+    </filesystem>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/lxcconf2xmltest.c b/tests/lxcconf2xmltest.c
index 7042bdf11b7d9894bf36d689a710c76109edbbc4..3dd0a0bcf9388e59471bc67452a43d3dc2730f8c 100644
--- a/tests/lxcconf2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/lxcconf2xmltest.c
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("physnetwork", false);
     DO_TEST("macvlannetwork", false);
     DO_TEST("idmap", false);
+    DO_TEST("memtune", false);
 
     return ret;
 }