diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 8c12690753664db2e3a7d06bff97b1a99c3c46ee..3a200aa09e3ba0258924aec24ae47fd4bccdd85d 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -3265,7 +3265,7 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
       <source network='default'/>
       <target dev='vnet1'/>
       <model type='virtio'/>
-      <b>&lt;driver name='vhost' txmode='iothread' ioeventfd='on' event_idx='off'/&gt;</b>
+      <b>&lt;driver name='vhost' txmode='iothread' ioeventfd='on' event_idx='off' queues='5'/&gt;</b>
     &lt;/interface&gt;
   &lt;/devices&gt;
   ...</pre>
@@ -3359,6 +3359,16 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
         <b>In general you should leave this option alone, unless you
         are very certain you know what you are doing.</b>
       </dd>
+      <dt><code>queues</code></dt>
+      <dd>
+        The optional <code>queues</code> attribute controls the number of
+        queues to be used for the<a href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Multiqueue">
+        Multiqueue virtio-net</a> feature. If the interface has <code>&lt;model
+        type='virtio'/&gt;</code>, multiple packet processing queues can be
+        created; each queue will potentially be handled by a different
+        processor, resulting in much higher throughput.
+        <span class="since">Since 1.0.6 (QEMU and KVM only)</span>
+      </dd>
     </dl>
 
     <h5><a name="elementsNICSTargetOverride">Overriding the target element</a></h5>
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index 939654f4eac8badf7cfc0c5ba58dfaabf25b9cc0..3cace351a669447ece6b6a601e050eecbddb5513 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -2012,6 +2012,11 @@
                   </choice>
                 </attribute>
               </optional>
+              <optional>
+                <attribute name='queues'>
+                  <ref name="positiveInteger"/>
+                </attribute>
+              </optional>
               <optional>
                 <attribute name="txmode">
                   <choice>
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 746f0d061cd9b078d1f00afd1c386927c21cb1f8..ae9c0a4c3ae315e427945a2bb7d1444e50d2dd20 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -6001,6 +6001,7 @@ virDomainNetDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
     char *txmode = NULL;
     char *ioeventfd = NULL;
     char *event_idx = NULL;
+    char *queues = NULL;
     char *filter = NULL;
     char *internal = NULL;
     char *devaddr = NULL;
@@ -6112,6 +6113,7 @@ virDomainNetDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
                 txmode = virXMLPropString(cur, "txmode");
                 ioeventfd = virXMLPropString(cur, "ioeventfd");
                 event_idx = virXMLPropString(cur, "event_idx");
+                queues = virXMLPropString(cur, "queues");
             } else if (xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "filterref")) {
                 if (filter) {
                     virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s",
@@ -6402,6 +6404,16 @@ virDomainNetDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
             }
             def->driver.virtio.event_idx = idx;
         }
+        if (queues) {
+            unsigned int q;
+            if (virStrToLong_ui(queues, NULL, 10, &q) < 0) {
+                virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_DETAIL,
+                               _("'queues' attribute must be positive number: %s"),
+                               queues);
+                goto error;
+            }
+            def->driver.virtio.queues = q;
+        }
     }
 
     def->linkstate = VIR_DOMAIN_NET_INTERFACE_LINK_STATE_DEFAULT;
@@ -6455,6 +6467,7 @@ cleanup:
     VIR_FREE(txmode);
     VIR_FREE(ioeventfd);
     VIR_FREE(event_idx);
+    VIR_FREE(queues);
     VIR_FREE(filter);
     VIR_FREE(type);
     VIR_FREE(internal);
@@ -14497,6 +14510,8 @@ virDomainNetDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf,
                 virBufferAsprintf(buf, " event_idx='%s'",
                                   virDomainVirtioEventIdxTypeToString(def->driver.virtio.event_idx));
             }
+            if (def->driver.virtio.queues)
+                virBufferAsprintf(buf, " queues='%u'", def->driver.virtio.queues);
             virBufferAddLit(buf, "/>\n");
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index f9f3994fbc61a55f31b0ae32dc30bec7160ee9d9..3a71d6c8f57b9c019ba76c6fc35c18f76c22960e 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -934,6 +934,7 @@ struct _virDomainNetDef {
             enum virDomainNetVirtioTxModeType txmode;
             enum virDomainIoEventFd ioeventfd;
             enum virDomainVirtioEventIdx event_idx;
+            unsigned int queues; /* Multiqueue virtio-net */
         } virtio;
     } driver;
     union {
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-vhost_queues.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-vhost_queues.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76f84f622c1e57372be0c4d99694357cc7a4680d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-vhost_queues.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>test</name>
+  <uuid>bba65c0e-c049-934f-b6aa-4e2c0582acdf</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.13'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='cdrom'/>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+    <bootmenu enable='yes'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
+    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' event_idx='on'/>
+      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/f14.img'/>
+      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso'/>
+      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
+      <readonly/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'/>
+    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'/>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <interface type='user'>
+      <mac address='52:54:00:e5:48:58'/>
+      <model type='virtio'/>
+      <driver name='vhost' queues='5'/>
+    </interface>
+    <serial type='pty'>
+      <target port='0'/>
+    </serial>
+    <console type='pty'>
+      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
+    </console>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index fde6fa373c2b8a2379aaea8ca2d2dd9fb77eaff6..64a271cb7a3dc1d3b0c20fbe10d0387742aaa524 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("smp");
     DO_TEST("lease");
     DO_TEST("event_idx");
+    DO_TEST("vhost_queues");
     DO_TEST("virtio-lun");
 
     DO_TEST("usb-redir");