diff --git a/src/for-each-disk.c b/src/for-each-disk.c
index 8a2ecaed2..eb97af2b2 100644
--- a/src/for-each-disk.c
+++ b/src/for-each-disk.c
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ guestfs___for_each_disk (guestfs_h *g,
   /* Now the horrible task of parsing out the fields we need from the XML.
    * http://www.xmlsoft.org/examples/xpath1.c
    */
-  doc = xmlParseMemory (xml, strlen (xml));
+  doc = xmlReadMemory (xml, strlen (xml),
+                       NULL, NULL, XML_PARSE_NONET);
   if (doc == NULL) {
     error_function (g, 0,
                     _("unable to parse XML information returned by libvirt"));
diff --git a/src/launch-libvirt.c b/src/launch-libvirt.c
index 61886717e..5ae6f39f0 100644
--- a/src/launch-libvirt.c
+++ b/src/launch-libvirt.c
@@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ parse_capabilities (guestfs_h *g, const char *capabilities_xml,
   xmlAttrPtr attr;
   size_t seen_qemu, seen_kvm;
 
-  doc = xmlParseMemory (capabilities_xml, strlen (capabilities_xml));
+  doc = xmlReadMemory (capabilities_xml, strlen (capabilities_xml),
+                       NULL, NULL, XML_PARSE_NONET);
   if (doc == NULL) {
     error (g, _("unable to parse capabilities XML returned by libvirt"));
     return -1;
diff --git a/src/libvirt-domain.c b/src/libvirt-domain.c
index 350068e5a..726f25070 100644
--- a/src/libvirt-domain.c
+++ b/src/libvirt-domain.c
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ connect_live (guestfs_h *g, virDomainPtr dom)
   }
 
   /* Parse XML to document. */
-  doc = xmlParseMemory (xml, strlen (xml));
+  doc = xmlReadMemory (xml, strlen (xml),
+                       NULL, NULL, XML_PARSE_NONET);
   if (doc == NULL) {
     error (g, _("unable to parse XML information returned by libvirt"));
     return -1;
diff --git a/src/osinfo.c b/src/osinfo.c
index d7aa5e128..ce462dd6a 100644
--- a/src/osinfo.c
+++ b/src/osinfo.c
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ read_osinfo_db_xml (guestfs_h *g, const char *filename)
 
   snprintf (pathname, pathname_len, "%s/%s", LIBOSINFO_DB_OS_PATH, filename);
 
-  doc = xmlParseFile (pathname);
+  doc = xmlReadFile (pathname, NULL, XML_PARSE_NONET);
   if (doc == NULL) {
     debug (g, "osinfo: unable to parse XML file %s", pathname);
     return 0;