diff --git a/libvirt.changes b/libvirt.changes
index 64dd0a0..235bdb8 100644
--- a/libvirt.changes
+++ b/libvirt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Nov  4 15:44:39 MST 2013 - jfehlig@suse.com
+
+- Fix initialization of libxl NIC devices
+  libxl-hvm-nic.patch
+  bnc#848918
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 30 08:35:47 MDT 2013 - jfehlig@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index 58a6d58..69a23d6 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ Patch100:       xen-name-for-devid.patch
 Patch101:       clone.patch
 Patch102:       xen-pv-cdrom.patch
 Patch103:       libxl-hvm-vnc.patch
+Patch104:       libxl-hvm-nic.patch
 # Our patches
 Patch200:       libvirtd-defaults.patch
 Patch201:       libvirtd-init-script.patch
@@ -955,6 +956,7 @@ of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
 %patch101
 %patch102 -p1
 %patch103 -p1
+%patch104 -p1
 %patch200 -p1
 %patch201 -p1
 %patch202 -p1
diff --git a/libxl-hvm-nic.patch b/libxl-hvm-nic.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74eb8e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libxl-hvm-nic.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Index: libvirt-1.1.2/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+===================================================================
+--- libvirt-1.1.2.orig/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
++++ libvirt-1.1.2/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+@@ -846,8 +846,6 @@ libxlMakeNic(virDomainNetDefPtr l_nic, l
+      * x_nics[i].mtu = 1492;
+      */
+ 
+-    libxl_device_nic_init(x_nic);
+-
+     virMacAddrGetRaw(&l_nic->mac, x_nic->mac);
+ 
+     if (l_nic->model && !STREQ(l_nic->model, "netfront")) {
+@@ -892,6 +890,8 @@ libxlMakeNicList(virDomainDefPtr def,  l
+         return -1;
+ 
+     for (i = 0; i < nnics; i++) {
++        libxl_device_nic_init(&x_nics[i]);
++        x_nics[i].devid = i;
+         if (libxlMakeNic(l_nics[i], &x_nics[i]))
+             goto error;
+     }