diff --git a/docs/drvqemu.html.in b/docs/drvqemu.html.in
index cbd159da3e10d0c04e2b4f13b6757406a7c0020a..13adb5c22b2200c6fae86811da4a8987d1a72729 100644
--- a/docs/drvqemu.html.in
+++ b/docs/drvqemu.html.in
@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ chmod o+x /path/to/directory
 /dev/null, /dev/full, /dev/zero,
 /dev/random, /dev/urandom,
 /dev/ptmx, /dev/kvm, /dev/kqemu,
-/dev/rtc, /dev/hpet, /dev/net/tun
+/dev/rtc, /dev/hpet, /dev/net/tun,
+/dev/sev
 </pre>
 
     <p>
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu.conf b/src/qemu/qemu.conf
index 76afe88b0c90b431d0360228ccd0f4a0978bd9b6..cd57b3cc699b9531b8308c08b4f37d7187429f1f 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu.conf
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu.conf
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
 #    "/dev/null", "/dev/full", "/dev/zero",
 #    "/dev/random", "/dev/urandom",
 #    "/dev/ptmx", "/dev/kvm", "/dev/kqemu",
-#    "/dev/rtc","/dev/hpet"
+#    "/dev/rtc","/dev/hpet", "/dev/sev"
 #]
 #
 # RDMA migration requires the following extra files to be added to the list:
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c b/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
index 12b3f3bf40db29bdae5ffb93e96dc30157755708..43c5ae8f8e1bec36d4b46b0af4405466807748ac 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ const char *const defaultDeviceACL[] = {
     "/dev/null", "/dev/full", "/dev/zero",
     "/dev/random", "/dev/urandom",
     "/dev/ptmx", "/dev/kvm", "/dev/kqemu",
-    "/dev/rtc", "/dev/hpet",
+    "/dev/rtc", "/dev/hpet", "/dev/sev",
     NULL,
 };
 #define DEVICE_PTY_MAJOR 136
diff --git a/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in b/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in
index 61690ee92cf732b1592421e64578bccd98a13c89..f1e8806ad20db1fcf21f20f19588c18865b95889 100644
--- a/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in
+++ b/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ module Test_libvirtd_qemu =
     { "8" = "/dev/kqemu" }
     { "9" = "/dev/rtc" }
     { "10" = "/dev/hpet" }
+    { "11" = "/dev/sev" }
 }
 { "save_image_format" = "raw" }
 { "dump_image_format" = "raw" }