diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmi/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6891400fe76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmi/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv, xen, which, autoreconfHook, fetchFromGitHub, yacc, bison, flex, glib, libtool, autoconf, automake, pkgconfig, libvirt }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libvmi-${version}";
+  version = "${stdenv.lib.strings.substring 0 7 rev}-2017-05-27";
+  rev = "3e4114a64f012f1d3e2eb660bc65dcd130295d49";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    inherit rev;
+    owner = "libvmi";
+    repo = "libvmi";
+    sha256 = "0vbmrj0ij19i55afkqj64q7sgh0scpwk3c99qx6p6gn1qcy2wdss";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ glib xen which libvirt ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook yacc bison flex libtool autoconf automake pkgconfig ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://libvmi.com/";
+    description = "A C library for virtual machine introspection";
+    longDescription = ''
+      LibVMI is a C library with Python bindings that makes it easy to monitor the low-level
+      details of a running virtual machine by viewing its memory, trapping on hardware events,
+      and accessing the vCPU registers.
+    '';
+    license = [ licenses.lgpl3 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lschuermann ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4202685e491..0bd382d6eb2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16870,6 +16870,8 @@ with pkgs;
     libreoffice = libreoffice-still-unwrapped;
   });
 
+  libvmi = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvmi { };
+
   liferea = callPackage ../applications/networking/newsreaders/liferea {
     inherit (gnome3) libpeas gsettings-desktop-schemas dconf;
   };