diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/xnbd/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/xnbd/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e898904c6d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/xnbd/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, autoreconfHook, glib, jansson }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "xnbd-0.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://bitbucket.org/hirofuchi/xnbd/downloads/${name}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "00wkvsa0yaq4mabczcbfpj6rjvp02yahw8vdrq8hgb3wpm80x913";
+  };
+
+  sourceRoot = "${name}/trunk";
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ glib jansson ];
+
+  # do not build docs, it is slow and it fails on Hydra
+  prePatch = ''
+    rm -rf doc
+    substituteInPlace configure.ac --replace "doc/Makefile" ""
+    substituteInPlace Makefile.am --replace "lib doc ." "lib ."
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://bitbucket.org/hirofuchi/xnbd;
+    description = "Yet another NBD (Network Block Device) server program";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.volth ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 054febb6223..476ebd37096 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3756,6 +3756,7 @@ with pkgs;
   nawk = callPackage ../tools/text/nawk { };
 
   nbd = callPackage ../tools/networking/nbd { };
+  xnbd = callPackage ../tools/networking/xnbd { };
 
   inherit (callPackages ../development/libraries/science/math/nccl { })
     nccl_cudatoolkit8