diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 39ddfb7db0..8d77eb4295 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -16795,19 +16795,9 @@ virDomainLoaderDefParseXMLNvram(virDomainLoaderDef *loader,
 
 
 static int
-virDomainLoaderDefParseXML(virDomainLoaderDef *loader,
-                           xmlNodePtr loaderNode,
-                           xmlNodePtr nvramNode,
-                           xmlNodePtr nvramSourceNode,
-                           xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt,
-                           virDomainXMLOption *xmlopt,
-                           unsigned int flags)
+virDomainLoaderDefParseXMLLoader(virDomainLoaderDef *loader,
+                                 xmlNodePtr loaderNode)
 {
-    if (virDomainLoaderDefParseXMLNvram(loader,
-                                        nvramNode, nvramSourceNode,
-                                        ctxt, xmlopt, flags) < 0)
-        return -1;
-
     if (!loaderNode)
         return 0;
 
@@ -16837,6 +16827,28 @@ virDomainLoaderDefParseXML(virDomainLoaderDef *loader,
 }
 
 
+static int
+virDomainLoaderDefParseXML(virDomainLoaderDef *loader,
+                           xmlNodePtr loaderNode,
+                           xmlNodePtr nvramNode,
+                           xmlNodePtr nvramSourceNode,
+                           xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt,
+                           virDomainXMLOption *xmlopt,
+                           unsigned int flags)
+{
+    if (virDomainLoaderDefParseXMLNvram(loader,
+                                        nvramNode, nvramSourceNode,
+                                        ctxt, xmlopt, flags) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    if (virDomainLoaderDefParseXMLLoader(loader,
+                                         loaderNode) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
 static int
 virDomainSchedulerParseCommonAttrs(xmlNodePtr node,
                                    virProcessSchedPolicy *policy,