diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index 6805420451..d79dee650e 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -5754,6 +5754,11 @@
         </attribute>
       </optional>
       <interleave>
+        <optional>
+          <element name="uuid">
+            <ref name="UUID"/>
+          </element>
+        </optional>
         <optional>
           <ref name="memorydev-source"/>
         </optional>
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 2fed8dff14..6323e7af62 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -16588,6 +16588,7 @@ static virDomainMemoryDefPtr
 virDomainMemoryDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
                            xmlNodePtr memdevNode,
                            xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt,
+                           const virDomainDef *dom,
                            unsigned int flags)
 {
     VIR_XPATH_NODE_AUTORESTORE(ctxt);
@@ -16634,6 +16635,25 @@ virDomainMemoryDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
 
         def->discard = val;
     }
+    VIR_FREE(tmp);
+
+    if (def->model == VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_MODEL_NVDIMM &&
+        ARCH_IS_PPC64(dom->os.arch)) {
+        /* Extract nvdimm uuid or generate a new one */
+        tmp = virXPathString("string(./uuid[1])", ctxt);
+
+        if (!tmp) {
+            if (virUUIDGenerate(def->uuid) < 0) {
+                virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                               "%s", _("Failed to generate UUID"));
+                goto error;
+            }
+        } else if (virUUIDParse(tmp, def->uuid) < 0) {
+            virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                           "%s", _("malformed uuid element"));
+            goto error;
+        }
+    }
 
     /* source */
     if ((node = virXPathNode("./source", ctxt)) &&
@@ -16931,7 +16951,8 @@ virDomainDeviceDefParse(const char *xmlStr,
         break;
     case VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_MEMORY:
         if (!(dev->data.memory = virDomainMemoryDefParseXML(xmlopt, node,
-                                                            ctxt, flags)))
+                                                            ctxt, def,
+                                                            flags)))
             return NULL;
         break;
     case VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_IOMMU:
@@ -21877,6 +21898,7 @@ virDomainDefParseXML(xmlDocPtr xml,
         virDomainMemoryDefPtr mem = virDomainMemoryDefParseXML(xmlopt,
                                                                nodes[i],
                                                                ctxt,
+                                                               def,
                                                                flags);
         if (!mem)
             goto error;
@@ -27092,6 +27114,7 @@ virDomainMemoryTargetDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf,
 static int
 virDomainMemoryDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf,
                          virDomainMemoryDefPtr def,
+                         const virDomainDef *dom,
                          unsigned int flags)
 {
     const char *model = virDomainMemoryModelTypeToString(def->model);
@@ -27106,6 +27129,14 @@ virDomainMemoryDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf,
     virBufferAddLit(buf, ">\n");
     virBufferAdjustIndent(buf, 2);
 
+    if (def->model == VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_MODEL_NVDIMM &&
+        ARCH_IS_PPC64(dom->os.arch)) {
+        char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN];
+
+        virUUIDFormat(def->uuid, uuidstr);
+        virBufferAsprintf(buf, "<uuid>%s</uuid>\n", uuidstr);
+    }
+
     if (virDomainMemorySourceDefFormat(buf, def) < 0)
         return -1;
 
@@ -29435,7 +29466,7 @@ virDomainDefFormatInternalSetRootName(virDomainDefPtr def,
     }
 
     for (n = 0; n < def->nmems; n++) {
-        if (virDomainMemoryDefFormat(buf, def->mems[n], flags) < 0)
+        if (virDomainMemoryDefFormat(buf, def->mems[n], def, flags) < 0)
             goto error;
     }
 
@@ -30548,7 +30579,7 @@ virDomainDeviceDefCopy(virDomainDeviceDefPtr src,
         rc = virDomainPanicDefFormat(&buf, src->data.panic);
         break;
     case VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_MEMORY:
-        rc = virDomainMemoryDefFormat(&buf, src->data.memory, flags);
+        rc = virDomainMemoryDefFormat(&buf, src->data.memory, def, flags);
         break;
     case VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_SHMEM:
         rc = virDomainShmemDefFormat(&buf, src->data.shmem, flags);
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 73bd097cf8..b7c31eb62f 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -2189,6 +2189,9 @@ struct _virDomainMemoryDef {
     unsigned long long labelsize; /* kibibytes; valid only for NVDIMM */
     bool readonly; /* valid only for NVDIMM */
 
+    /* required for QEMU NVDIMM ppc64 support */
+    unsigned char uuid[VIR_UUID_BUFLEN];
+
     virDomainDeviceInfo info;
 };
 
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59352d3c52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <maxMemory slots='16' unit='KiB'>1099511627776</maxMemory>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>1267710</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1267710</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-1'>2</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='ppc64' machine='pseries'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <cpu>
+    <topology sockets='2' dies='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
+    <numa>
+      <cell id='0' cpus='0-1' memory='1048576' unit='KiB'/>
+    </numa>
+  </cpu>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64</emulator>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
+      <model name='spapr-pci-host-bridge'/>
+      <target index='0'/>
+    </controller>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
+    </memballoon>
+    <panic model='pseries'/>
+    <memory model='nvdimm'>
+      <uuid>49545eb3-75e1-2d0a-acdd-f0294406c99e</uuid>
+      <source>
+        <path>/tmp/nvdimm</path>
+      </source>
+      <target>
+        <size unit='KiB'>523264</size>
+        <node>0</node>
+      </target>
+      <address type='dimm' slot='0'/>
+    </memory>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64.xml b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59352d3c52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <maxMemory slots='16' unit='KiB'>1099511627776</maxMemory>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>1267710</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1267710</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-1'>2</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='ppc64' machine='pseries'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <cpu>
+    <topology sockets='2' dies='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
+    <numa>
+      <cell id='0' cpus='0-1' memory='1048576' unit='KiB'/>
+    </numa>
+  </cpu>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64</emulator>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
+      <model name='spapr-pci-host-bridge'/>
+      <target index='0'/>
+    </controller>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
+    </memballoon>
+    <panic model='pseries'/>
+    <memory model='nvdimm'>
+      <uuid>49545eb3-75e1-2d0a-acdd-f0294406c99e</uuid>
+      <source>
+        <path>/tmp/nvdimm</path>
+      </source>
+      <target>
+        <size unit='KiB'>523264</size>
+        <node>0</node>
+      </target>
+      <address type='dimm' slot='0'/>
+    </memory>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index 9b6a235777..a3c25b4a76 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -1246,6 +1246,8 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("memory-hotplug-nvdimm-align", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM);
     DO_TEST("memory-hotplug-nvdimm-pmem", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM);
     DO_TEST("memory-hotplug-nvdimm-readonly", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM);
+    DO_TEST("memory-hotplug-nvdimm-ppc64", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_SPAPR_PCI_HOST_BRIDGE,
+                                           QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_NVDIMM);
     DO_TEST("net-udp", NONE);
 
     DO_TEST("video-virtio-gpu-device", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIRTIO_GPU);