diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 10cb087..3d701ac 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ BuildRequires: febootstrap >= 2.3
 BuildRequires: augeas-devel >= 0.5.0
 BuildRequires: readline-devel
 BuildRequires: genisoimage
+BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires: qemu-kvm >= 0.10-7
 BuildRequires: createrepo
 BuildRequires: glibc-static