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 a2c66829d56..cd4ab265b58 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
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements Serv
         for (int i = 0; i < interfaces.length; i++) {
             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") ||
+            if (fname.startsWith("eth") || fname.startsWith("bond") || fname.startsWith("vlan") || fname.startsWith("vx") || fname.startsWith("em") ||
                 fname.matches("^p\\d+p\\d+.*")) {
                 return fname;
             }