diff --git a/tests/schemas/device.rng.in b/tests/schemas/device.rng.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b322b5275e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schemas/device.rng.in
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
+  <include href="privatedata.rng"/>
+  <include href="@SCHEMADIR@/domainoverrides.rng"/>
+
+  <!-- This schema file describes a singular device. -->
+
+  <!-- allow also disk definitions without 'target' as they are used in some tests -->
+  <define name="diskTarget" combine="choice">
+    <optional>
+      <element name="target">
+        <empty/>
+      </element>
+    </optional>
+  </define>
+
+  <start>
+    <choice>
+      <ref name="disk"/>
+      <ref name="controller"/>
+      <ref name="lease"/>
+      <ref name="filesystem"/>
+      <ref name="interface"/>
+      <ref name="input"/>
+      <ref name="sound"/>
+      <ref name="audio"/>
+      <ref name="hostdev"/>
+      <ref name="graphic"/>
+      <ref name="video"/>
+      <ref name="console"/>
+      <ref name="parallel"/>
+      <ref name="serial"/>
+      <ref name="channel"/>
+      <ref name="smartcard"/>
+      <ref name="hub"/>
+      <ref name="redirdev"/>
+      <ref name="redirfilter"/>
+      <ref name="rng"/>
+      <ref name="tpm"/>
+      <ref name="shmem"/>
+      <ref name="memorydev"/>
+      <ref name="watchdog"/>
+      <ref name="memballoon"/>
+      <ref name="nvram"/>
+      <ref name="panic"/>
+      <ref name="iommu"/>
+      <ref name="vsock"/>
+    </choice>
+  </start>
+
+</grammar>
diff --git a/tests/schemas/meson.build b/tests/schemas/meson.build
index 33c16bb2fb..851355d4e9 100644
--- a/tests/schemas/meson.build
+++ b/tests/schemas/meson.build
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ virschematest_test_schemas_conf = configuration_data({
 
 virschematest_schemas = [
   'cpu-baseline.rng.in',
+  'device.rng.in',
+  'privatedata.rng.in',
 ]
 
 foreach file : virschematest_schemas
diff --git a/tests/schemas/privatedata.rng.in b/tests/schemas/privatedata.rng.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..945f7a06b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schemas/privatedata.rng.in
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
+
+  <define name="privateDataStorageSource" combine="choice">
+    <optional>
+      <element name="privateData">
+        <interleave>
+          <optional>
+            <ref name="privateDataStorageSourceNodenames"/>
+          </optional>
+          <optional>
+            <ref name="privateDataStorageSourceReservations"/>
+          </optional>
+          <optional>
+            <ref name="privateDataStorageSourceObjects"/>
+          </optional>
+        </interleave>
+      </element>
+    </optional>
+  </define>
+
+  <define name="privateDataDeviceDisk" combine="choice">
+    <optional>
+      <element name="privateData">
+        <notAllowed/>
+      </element>
+    </optional>
+  </define>
+
+  <define name="privateDataStorageSourceNodenames">
+    <element name="nodenames">
+      <oneOrMore>
+        <ref name="nodename"/>
+      </oneOrMore>
+    </element>
+  </define>
+
+  <define name="nodename">
+    <element name="nodename">
+      <attribute name="type">
+        <choice>
+          <value>storage</value>
+          <value>format</value>
+        </choice>
+      </attribute>
+      <attribute name="name"/>
+    </element>
+  </define>
+
+  <define name="privateDataStorageSourceReservations">
+    <element name="reservations">
+      <attribute name="mgralias"/>
+    </element>
+  </define>
+
+  <define name="privateDataStorageSourceObjects">
+    <element name="objects">
+      <interleave>
+        <optional>
+          <element name="TLSx509">
+            <attribute name="alias"/>
+          </element>
+        </optional>
+      </interleave>
+    </element>
+  </define>
+
+</grammar>
diff --git a/tests/virschematest.c b/tests/virschematest.c
index 29a1d59134..fcf3838630 100644
--- a/tests/virschematest.c
+++ b/tests/virschematest.c
@@ -322,6 +322,12 @@ static const struct testSchemaEntry testsCpuBaseline[] = {
     { . dir = "tests/cputestdata" },
 };
 
+static const struct testSchemaEntry testDevice[] = {
+    { .dir = "tests/qemuhotplugtestdevices" },
+    { .dir = "tests/qemublocktestdata/imagecreate" },
+    { .dir = "tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json" },
+};
+
 static int
 mymain(void)
 {
@@ -352,6 +358,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST(SCHEMAS_PATH "storagevol.rng", schemaStorageVol);
 
     DO_TEST(INTERNAL_SCHEMAS_PATH "cpu-baseline.rng", testsCpuBaseline);
+    DO_TEST(INTERNAL_SCHEMAS_PATH "device.rng", testDevice);
 
     return ret == 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
 }