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 3f51d5e485e..91cd1e97fd4 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
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ ServerResource {
             String fname = interfaces[i].getName();
             s_logger.debug("matchPifFileInDirectory: file name '"+fname+"'");
             if (fname.startsWith("eth") || fname.startsWith("bond")
-                || fname.startsWith("vlan") || fname.startsWith("vxlan") || fname.startsWith("em")
+                || fname.startsWith("vlan") || fname.startsWith("vx") || fname.startsWith("em")
                 || fname.matches("^p\\d+p\\d+.*")) {
                 return fname;
             }