diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index 8a9f71bf7d5..2ed8478a67d 100755
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements
             String fname = interfaces[i].getName();
             s_logger.debug("matchPifFileInDirectory: file name '"+fname+"'");
             if (fname.startsWith("eth") || fname.startsWith("bond")
-                || fname.startsWith("vlan")) {
+                || fname.startsWith("vlan") || fname.startsWith("em")) {
                 return fname;
             }
         }