diff --git a/nbd.changes b/nbd.changes
index d76ff72..60ac445 100644
--- a/nbd.changes
+++ b/nbd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb  8 13:20:09 UTC 2016 - dmueller@suse.com
+
+- autoload nbd module
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb  5 17:11:09 UTC 2016 - dmueller@suse.com
 
diff --git a/nbd.spec b/nbd.spec
index a830400..24a1db6 100644
--- a/nbd.spec
+++ b/nbd.spec
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Requires(pre):  coreutils
 Suggests:       nbd-doc
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1210
+BuildRequires:  systemd
 BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
 %systemd_requires
 %else
@@ -107,6 +108,12 @@ install %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_initddir}/nbd-server
 ln -s ../..%{_initddir}/nbd-server %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/rc%{name}-server
 %endif
 
+%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1210
+# autoload nbd module
+install -d -m 750 %{buildroot}/etc/modules-load.d/
+echo "nbd" > %{buildroot}/etc/modules-load.d/%name.conf
+%endif
+
 #echo "#Port	file	options" > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/nbd-server.conf
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/nbd-server
 touch %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/nbd-server/config
@@ -134,6 +141,9 @@ install -D -m 0644 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/adm/fillup-templates
 %ghost %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/nbd-server/config
 %ghost %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/nbd-server/allow
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/nbd-server/config.example
+%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1210
+%{_sysconfdir}/modules-load.d/%name.conf
+%endif
 %{_localstatedir}/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.%{name}-server
 
 %files doc