diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 1d1b2d20e5685a66040ca20ba46e1cd012876155..b767a1e15fc2a94a3fbd77097a0640d9ced20212 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -10854,14 +10854,14 @@ qemuBuildCommandLine(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
         virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-loadvm", snapshot->def->name, NULL);
 
     if (def->namespaceData) {
-        qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr qemucmd;
-
-        qemucmd = def->namespaceData;
-        for (i = 0; i < qemucmd->num_args; i++)
-            virCommandAddArg(cmd, qemucmd->args[i]);
-        for (i = 0; i < qemucmd->num_env; i++)
-            virCommandAddEnvPair(cmd, qemucmd->env_name[i],
-                                 NULLSTR_EMPTY(qemucmd->env_value[i]));
+        qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr qemuxmlns;
+
+        qemuxmlns = def->namespaceData;
+        for (i = 0; i < qemuxmlns->num_args; i++)
+            virCommandAddArg(cmd, qemuxmlns->args[i]);
+        for (i = 0; i < qemuxmlns->num_env; i++)
+            virCommandAddEnvPair(cmd, qemuxmlns->env_name[i],
+                                 NULLSTR_EMPTY(qemuxmlns->env_value[i]));
     }
 
     if (qemuBuildSeccompSandboxCommandLine(cmd, cfg, qemuCaps) < 0)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
index daea11dacbbb89fcd72296dd44f6df50147d0f62..afff77b1f3d17be03801bf766f20c122e73009f1 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ qemuDriverUnlock(virQEMUDriverPtr driver)
     virMutexUnlock(&driver->lock);
 }
 
-void qemuDomainCmdlineDefFree(qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr def)
+void qemuDomainXmlNsDefFree(qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr def)
 {
     size_t i;
 
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
index 7ed3674086afe83f0392895c4c38d2c2991f3c36..5debd7eb00d08b9f07530b15e5c1aec1336f3598 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
@@ -288,9 +288,9 @@ struct _virQEMUDriver {
     virHashAtomicPtr migrationErrors;
 };
 
-typedef struct _qemuDomainCmdlineDef qemuDomainCmdlineDef;
-typedef qemuDomainCmdlineDef *qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr;
-struct _qemuDomainCmdlineDef {
+typedef struct _qemuDomainXmlNsDef qemuDomainXmlNsDef;
+typedef qemuDomainXmlNsDef *qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr;
+struct _qemuDomainXmlNsDef {
     size_t num_args;
     char **args;
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ struct _qemuDomainCmdlineDef {
 
 
 
-void qemuDomainCmdlineDefFree(qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr def);
+void qemuDomainXmlNsDefFree(qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr def);
 
 virQEMUDriverConfigPtr virQEMUDriverConfigNew(bool privileged);
 
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
index 5b5263ab66312d6aceac7c9d6582a6dd15ebb4bb..f77575109377280a441ebca7f005efb35fa254fc 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
@@ -3090,9 +3090,9 @@ virDomainXMLPrivateDataCallbacks virQEMUDriverPrivateDataCallbacks = {
 static void
 qemuDomainDefNamespaceFree(void *nsdata)
 {
-    qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr cmd = nsdata;
+    qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr cmd = nsdata;
 
-    qemuDomainCmdlineDefFree(cmd);
+    qemuDomainXmlNsDefFree(cmd);
 }
 
 static int
@@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@ qemuDomainDefNamespaceParse(xmlDocPtr xml ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
                             xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt,
                             void **data)
 {
-    qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr cmd = NULL;
+    qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr cmd = NULL;
     bool uses_qemu_ns = false;
     xmlNodePtr *nodes = NULL;
     int n;
@@ -3201,7 +3201,7 @@ static int
 qemuDomainDefNamespaceFormatXML(virBufferPtr buf,
                                 void *nsdata)
 {
-    qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr cmd = nsdata;
+    qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr cmd = nsdata;
     size_t i;
 
     if (!cmd->num_args && !cmd->num_env)
@@ -8217,8 +8217,8 @@ void qemuDomainObjCheckTaint(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
         qemuDomainObjTaint(driver, obj, VIR_DOMAIN_TAINT_HOOK, logCtxt);
 
     if (obj->def->namespaceData) {
-        qemuDomainCmdlineDefPtr qemucmd = obj->def->namespaceData;
-        if (qemucmd->num_args || qemucmd->num_env)
+        qemuDomainXmlNsDefPtr qemuxmlns = obj->def->namespaceData;
+        if (qemuxmlns->num_args || qemuxmlns->num_env)
             qemuDomainObjTaint(driver, obj, VIR_DOMAIN_TAINT_CUSTOM_ARGV, logCtxt);
     }