diff --git a/lib/launch-libvirt.c b/lib/launch-libvirt.c
index d4bf1a8ff..79465dd44 100644
--- a/lib/launch-libvirt.c
+++ b/lib/launch-libvirt.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <libvirt/virterror.h>
 #endif
 
+#include <libxml/parser.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlwriter.h>
 #include <libxml/xpath.h>