diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix
index daecb8746ea..ec82115087b 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 { callPackage, fetchurl }:
 
 callPackage ./generic.nix (rec {
-  version = "1.5.2";
+  version = "1.6";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://nixos.org/releases/nixops/nixops-${version}/nixops-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "00y2arc5rffvy6xmx4p6ibpjyc61k8dkiabq7ccwwjgckz1d2dpb";
+    sha256 = "0f8ql1a9maf9swl8q054b1haxqckdn78p2xgpwl7paxc98l67i7x";
   };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/generic.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/generic.nix
index d9c9661d41a..f392e0f50ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/generic.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ python2Packages.buildPythonApplication {
       pysqlite
       datadog
       digital-ocean
+      libvirt
     ];
 
   doCheck = false;