diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 57ec2ff34cdcb3ace4d3fca14eddb40bc50efab5..9ce4620c65fff719a43730448ee14676a79458ca 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -2514,9 +2514,9 @@
               <dd>
               The <code>protocol</code> attribute specifies the protocol to
               access to the requested image. Possible values are "nbd",
-              "iscsi", "rbd", "sheepdog" or "gluster".  If the
-              <code>protocol</code> attribute is "rbd", "sheepdog" or
-              "gluster", an additional attribute <code>name</code> is
+              "iscsi", "rbd", "sheepdog", "gluster" or "vxhs".  If the
+              <code>protocol</code> attribute is "rbd", "sheepdog", "gluster"
+              or "vxhs", an additional attribute <code>name</code> is
               mandatory to specify which volume/image will be used. For "nbd",
               the <code>name</code> attribute is optional. For "iscsi"
               (<span class="since">since 1.0.4</span>), the <code>name</code>
@@ -2524,6 +2524,9 @@
               target's name by a slash (e.g.,
               <code>iqn.2013-07.com.example:iscsi-pool/1</code>). If not
               specified, the default LUN is zero.
+              For "vxhs" (<span class="since">since 3.8.0</span>), the
+              <code>name</code> is the UUID of the volume, assigned by the
+              HyperScale server.
               <span class="since">Since 0.8.7</span>
               </dd>
             <dt><code>volume</code></dt>
@@ -2626,6 +2629,12 @@
                 <td> one or more (<span class="since">Since 2.1.0</span>), just one prior to that </td>
                 <td> 24007 </td>
               </tr>
+              <tr>
+                <td> vxhs </td>
+                <td> a server running Veritas HyperScale daemon </td>
+                <td> only one </td>
+                <td> 9999 </td>
+              </tr>
             </table>
             <p>
             gluster supports "tcp", "rdma", "unix" as valid values for the
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index c9a4f7a9aac8d227e58ec24fad826e0368310859..76852abb3c6dd75c57040293b37c0f292e13e9ed 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -1636,6 +1636,18 @@
     </element>
   </define>
 
+  <define name="diskSourceNetworkProtocolVxHS">
+    <element name="source">
+      <attribute name="protocol">
+        <choice>
+          <value>vxhs</value>
+        </choice>
+      </attribute>
+      <attribute name="name"/>
+      <ref name="diskSourceNetworkHost"/>
+    </element>
+  </define>
+
   <define name="diskSourceNetwork">
     <attribute name="type">
       <value>network</value>
@@ -1646,6 +1658,7 @@
       <ref name="diskSourceNetworkProtocolRBD"/>
       <ref name="diskSourceNetworkProtocolHTTP"/>
       <ref name="diskSourceNetworkProtocolSimple"/>
+      <ref name="diskSourceNetworkProtocolVxHS"/>
     </choice>
   </define>
 
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f4df2f9eecd686a9cd1bbcd59aa95594cb44426
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
+    <disk type='network' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
+      <source protocol='vxhs' name='eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251'>
+        <host name='192.168.0.1' port='9999'/>
+      </source>
+      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
+      <serial>eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251</serial>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'/>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..160ed8d5f46a96c69d4be37ec1c90cb2b106c977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
+    <disk type='network' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
+      <source protocol='vxhs' name='eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251'>
+        <host name='192.168.0.1' port='9999'/>
+      </source>
+      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
+      <serial>eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251</serial>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index efac9e8286e29183d2107e5ece0484f4a429f2b2..80159386ceda3db9d36c0f6c1927b430a1d18c95 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("disk-drive-network-rbd-ipv6", NONE);
     DO_TEST("disk-drive-network-rbd-ceph-env", NONE);
     DO_TEST("disk-drive-network-sheepdog", NONE);
+    DO_TEST("disk-drive-network-vxhs", NONE);
     DO_TEST("disk-scsi-device",
             QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG, QEMU_CAPS_SCSI_LSI);
     DO_TEST("disk-scsi-vscsi", NONE);