diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index b6caaf7c8f6d457a41a2552641ae24f3b68c2c73..806251071e10c175cd96cdbb085cc4cf9e05c736 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(qemuDomainFSDriver, VIR_DOMAIN_FS_DRIVER_TYPE_LAST,
               NULL,
               NULL);
 
+VIR_ENUM_DECL(qemuNumaPolicy)
+VIR_ENUM_IMPL(qemuNumaPolicy, VIR_DOMAIN_NUMATUNE_MEM_LAST,
+              "bind",
+              "preferred",
+              "interleave");
 
 /**
  * qemuPhysIfaceConnect:
@@ -6383,13 +6388,23 @@ qemuBuildNumaArgStr(const virDomainDef *def,
     size_t i;
     virBuffer buf = VIR_BUFFER_INITIALIZER;
     char *cpumask = NULL, *tmpmask = NULL, *next = NULL;
+    char *nodemask = NULL;
     int ret = -1;
 
+    if (virDomainNumatuneHasPerNodeBinding(def->numatune) &&
+        !virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_MEMORY_RAM)) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
+                       _("Per-node memory binding is not supported "
+                         "with this QEMU"));
+        goto cleanup;
+    }
+
     for (i = 0; i < def->cpu->ncells; i++) {
         int cellmem = VIR_DIV_UP(def->cpu->cells[i].mem, 1024);
         def->cpu->cells[i].mem = cellmem * 1024;
 
         VIR_FREE(cpumask);
+        VIR_FREE(nodemask);
 
         if (!(cpumask = virBitmapFormat(def->cpu->cells[i].cpumask)))
             goto cleanup;
@@ -6402,6 +6417,43 @@ qemuBuildNumaArgStr(const virDomainDef *def,
             goto cleanup;
         }
 
+        if (virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_MEMORY_RAM)) {
+            virDomainNumatuneMemMode mode;
+            const char *policy = NULL;
+
+            mode = virDomainNumatuneGetMode(def->numatune, i);
+            policy = qemuNumaPolicyTypeToString(mode);
+
+            virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "memory-backend-ram,size=%dM,id=ram-node%zu",
+                              cellmem, i);
+
+            if (virDomainNumatuneMaybeFormatNodeset(def->numatune, NULL,
+                                                    &nodemask, i) < 0)
+                goto cleanup;
+
+            if (nodemask) {
+                if (strchr(nodemask, ',') &&
+                    !virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_NUMA)) {
+                    virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
+                                   _("disjoint NUMA node ranges are not supported "
+                                     "with this QEMU"));
+                    goto cleanup;
+                }
+
+                for (tmpmask = nodemask; tmpmask; tmpmask = next) {
+                    if ((next = strchr(tmpmask, ',')))
+                        *(next++) = '\0';
+                    virBufferAddLit(&buf, ",host-nodes=");
+                    virBufferAdd(&buf, tmpmask, -1);
+                }
+
+                virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",policy=%s", policy);
+            }
+
+            virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-object");
+            virCommandAddArgBuffer(cmd, &buf);
+        }
+
         virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-numa");
         virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "node,nodeid=%zu", i);
 
@@ -6412,7 +6464,11 @@ qemuBuildNumaArgStr(const virDomainDef *def,
             virBufferAdd(&buf, tmpmask, -1);
         }
 
-        virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",mem=%d", cellmem);
+        if (virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_MEMORY_RAM)) {
+            virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",memdev=ram-node%zu", i);
+        } else {
+            virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",mem=%d", cellmem);
+        }
 
         virCommandAddArgBuffer(cmd, &buf);
     }
@@ -6420,6 +6476,7 @@ qemuBuildNumaArgStr(const virDomainDef *def,
 
  cleanup:
     VIR_FREE(cpumask);
+    VIR_FREE(nodemask);
     virBufferFreeAndReset(&buf);
     return ret;
 }
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode-no-memory.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode-no-memory.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b0e274ca07e51bb7aeb98b1f6783795a9bd494ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode-no-memory.args
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 64 -smp 2 \
+-object memory-backend-ram,size=32M,id=ram-node0,host-nodes=3,policy=preferred \
+-numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0 \
+-object memory-backend-ram,size=32M,id=ram-node1 \
+-numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1,memdev=ram-node1 \
+-nographic -monitor unix:/tmp/test-monitor,server,nowait \
+-no-acpi -boot c -usb -net none -serial none -parallel none
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4beb98084bef1f398ab8ed932ff153eb3ec9ae6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 24104 -smp 32 \
+-object memory-backend-ram,size=20M,id=ram-node0,host-nodes=3,policy=preferred \
+-numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0 \
+-object memory-backend-ram,size=645M,id=ram-node1,host-nodes=0-7,policy=bind \
+-numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1-27,cpus=29,memdev=ram-node1 \
+-object memory-backend-ram,size=23440M,id=ram-node2,\
+host-nodes=1-2,host-nodes=5,host-nodes=7,policy=bind \
+-numa node,nodeid=2,cpus=28,cpus=30-31,memdev=ram-node2 \
+-nographic -monitor unix:/tmp/test-monitor,server,nowait \
+-no-acpi -boot c -usb -net none -serial none -parallel none
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index 1fd106679e3982e391e6a1aa5f67111e327b46f4..28436f2e5d75913dd2a090f8d4aa02ec90747850 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1197,7 +1197,14 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("blkiotune-device", QEMU_CAPS_NAME);
     DO_TEST("cputune", QEMU_CAPS_NAME);
     DO_TEST("cputune-zero-shares", QEMU_CAPS_NAME);
+
     DO_TEST("numatune-memory", NONE);
+    DO_TEST("numatune-memnode", QEMU_CAPS_NUMA, QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_MEMORY_RAM);
+    DO_TEST_FAILURE("numatune-memnode", NONE);
+
+    DO_TEST("numatune-memnode-no-memory", QEMU_CAPS_NUMA, QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_MEMORY_RAM);
+    DO_TEST_FAILURE("numatune-memnode-no-memory", NONE);
+
     DO_TEST("numatune-auto-nodeset-invalid", NONE);
     DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR("numatune-memnode-nocpu", NONE);
     DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR("numatune-memnodes-problematic", NONE);