diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 008a64c430cc7d7a52fee4aa2cb651b1c4b551d4..9ee84a0efb12159bdc463a13bb580139166f48e0 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -5306,9 +5306,19 @@ qemuBuildUSBInputDevStr(virDomainDefPtr def,
 {
     virBuffer buf = VIR_BUFFER_INITIALIZER;
 
-    virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "%s,id=%s",
-                      dev->type == VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_MOUSE ?
-                      "usb-mouse" : "usb-tablet", dev->info.alias);
+    switch (dev->type) {
+    case VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_MOUSE:
+        virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "usb-mouse,id=%s", dev->info.alias);
+        break;
+    case VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_TABLET:
+        virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "usb-tablet,id=%s", dev->info.alias);
+        break;
+    case VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_KBD:
+        if (!virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_USB_KBD))
+            goto error;
+        virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "usb-kbd,id=%s", dev->info.alias);
+        break;
+    }
 
     if (qemuBuildDeviceAddressStr(&buf, def, &dev->info, qemuCaps) < 0)
         goto error;
@@ -9044,9 +9054,17 @@ qemuBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
                 virCommandAddArg(cmd, optstr);
                 VIR_FREE(optstr);
             } else {
-                virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-usbdevice",
-                                     input->type == VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_MOUSE
-                                     ? "mouse" : "tablet", NULL);
+                switch (input->type) {
+                    case VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_MOUSE:
+                        virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-usbdevice", "mouse", NULL);
+                        break;
+                    case VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_TABLET:
+                        virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-usbdevice", "tablet", NULL);
+                        break;
+                    case VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_KBD:
+                        virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-usbdevice", "keyboard", NULL);
+                        break;
+                }
             }
         }
     }
@@ -11720,20 +11738,23 @@ qemuParseCommandLine(virCapsPtr qemuCaps,
         } else if (STREQ(arg, "-usbdevice")) {
             WANT_VALUE();
             if (STREQ(val, "tablet") ||
-                STREQ(val, "mouse")) {
+                STREQ(val, "mouse") ||
+                STREQ(val, "keyboard")) {
                 virDomainInputDefPtr input;
                 if (VIR_ALLOC(input) < 0)
                     goto error;
                 input->bus = VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_BUS_USB;
                 if (STREQ(val, "tablet"))
                     input->type = VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_TABLET;
-                else
+                else if (STREQ(val, "mouse"))
                     input->type = VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_MOUSE;
-                if (VIR_REALLOC_N(def->inputs, def->ninputs+1) < 0) {
+                else
+                    input->type = VIR_DOMAIN_INPUT_TYPE_KBD;
+
+                if (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT(def->inputs, def->ninputs, input) < 0) {
                     virDomainInputDefFree(input);
                     goto error;
                 }
-                def->inputs[def->ninputs++] = input;
             } else if (STRPREFIX(val, "disk:")) {
                 if (VIR_ALLOC(disk) < 0)
                     goto error;
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-usb-kbd.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-usb-kbd.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..373c72a95b2c3a3a65a460bcb66c00b26db2e760
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-usb-kbd.args
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -S -M pseries -m 512 -smp 1 \
+-nographic -nodefconfig -nodefaults \
+-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/test-monitor,server,nowait \
+-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -no-acpi -boot c \
+-device pci-ohci,id=usb,bus=pci,addr=0x1 \
+-chardev pty,id=charserial0 \
+-device spapr-vty,chardev=charserial0,reg=0x30000000 \
+-device usb-kbd,id=input0
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-usb-kbd.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-usb-kbd.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5bd4c3751b5d6b198b13890afe331c5b09661581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-usb-kbd.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>1ccfd97d-5eb4-478a-bbe6-88d254c16db7</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>524288</memory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='ppc64' machine='pseries'>hvm</type>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64</emulator>
+    <console type='pty'>
+      <address type="spapr-vio"/>
+    </console>
+    <memballoon model="none"/>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='pci-ohci'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='usb'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index 7a5b50d5381d8db676df964055078bf61c009015..23b56524d03c69c09275c40909e74031d1a6cc39 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1206,6 +1206,9 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST_ERROR("pseries-vio-address-clash", QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE,
             QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE, QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG);
     DO_TEST("pseries-nvram", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVRAM);
+    DO_TEST("pseries-usb-kbd", QEMU_CAPS_PCI_OHCI,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_USB_KBD, QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE, QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG);
     DO_TEST_FAILURE("pseries-cpu-exact", QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE, QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG);
     DO_TEST("disk-ide-drive-split",
             QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE, QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG,