diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 77f6cfdeb9..9a339538a4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Jan 19 19:10:08 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/xend_internal.c src/xm_internal.c: fix fully virt network
+	  device configuration for Xen on RHEL-5, patch by Markus Armbruster
+
 Mon Jan 19 18:31:56 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 
 	* configure.in: add a --with-rhel5-api configure option
diff --git a/src/xend_internal.c b/src/xend_internal.c
index 29b27806cc..e0c61e8761 100644
--- a/src/xend_internal.c
+++ b/src/xend_internal.c
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@
 
 #endif /* PROXY */
 
+#ifdef WITH_RHEL5_API
+#define XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU 0
+#else
+#define XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU 3
+#endif
+
 /**
  * xend_connection_type:
  *
@@ -5160,7 +5166,7 @@ xenDaemonFormatSxprNet(virConnectPtr conn,
      * apparently (type ioemu) breaks paravirt drivers on HVM so skip this
      * from Xen 3.1.0
      */
-    if ((hvm) && (xendConfigVersion < 4))
+    if (hvm && xendConfigVersion <= XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU)
         virBufferAddLit(buf, "(type ioemu)");
 
     if (!isAttach)
diff --git a/src/xm_internal.c b/src/xm_internal.c
index 6ea26087cf..308c766807 100644
--- a/src/xm_internal.c
+++ b/src/xm_internal.c
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@
 #include "logging.h"
 
 
+#ifdef WITH_RHEL5_API
+#define XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU 0
+#else
+#define XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU 3
+#endif
+
 /* The true Xen limit varies but so far is always way
    less than 1024, which is the Linux kernel limit according
    to sched.h, so we'll match that for now */
@@ -1837,7 +1843,7 @@ static int xenXMDomainConfigFormatNet(virConnectPtr conn,
         goto cleanup;
     }
 
-    if (hvm && priv->xendConfigVersion < 4)
+    if (hvm && priv->xendConfigVersion <= XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU)
         virBufferAddLit(&buf, ",type=ioemu");
 
     if (net->model)