diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
index b8f88656671..4dea88190d4 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nbd-3.12.1";
+  name = "nbd-3.14";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/nbd/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1pkkid657zgjymwxv3fm32cxnq9llfz29rl15vp6mn42vnzbj1di";
+    sha256 = "0cc6wznvkgjv0fxsj3diy92qfsjrsw92m7yq13f044qarh726gad";
   };
 
+  patches = [ ./dont-run-make-in-broken-systemd-subdir.patch ];
+
   buildInputs =
     [ pkgconfig glib ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv ? glibc) stdenv.glibc.linuxHeaders;
@@ -17,8 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cp README.md "$out/share/doc/${name}/"
   '';
 
-  # The test suite doesn't succeed in chroot builds.
-  doCheck = false;
+  doCheck = true;
 
   # Glib calls `clock_gettime', which is in librt. Linking that library
   # here ensures that a proper rpath is added to the executable so that
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/dont-run-make-in-broken-systemd-subdir.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/dont-run-make-in-broken-systemd-subdir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ad0a7a6f66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/dont-run-make-in-broken-systemd-subdir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ubr nbd-3.14-orig/Makefile.in nbd-3.14-new/Makefile.in
+--- nbd-3.14-orig/Makefile.in	2016-09-19 15:37:30.904176475 +0200
++++ nbd-3.14-new/Makefile.in	2016-09-19 15:39:43.813543062 +0200
+@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
+ top_build_prefix = @top_build_prefix@
+ top_builddir = @top_builddir@
+ top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
+-SUBDIRS = . man doc tests systemd gznbd
++SUBDIRS = . man doc tests gznbd
+ sbin_PROGRAMS = @NBD_CLIENT_NAME@
+ noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libnbdsrv.la libcliserv.la
+ libcliserv_la_SOURCES = cliserv.h cliserv.c