diff --git a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
index ac062dfa15..d958d99330 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Morgan Smith <Morgan.J.Smith@outlook.com>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -37,13 +38,16 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages admin)
   #:use-module (gnu packages assembly)
   #:use-module (gnu packages attr)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages augeas)
   #:use-module (gnu packages autotools)
   #:use-module (gnu packages backup)
   #:use-module (gnu packages base)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bison)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages cdrom)
   #:use-module (gnu packages check)
   #:use-module (gnu packages cmake)
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages cpio)
   #:use-module (gnu packages cross-base)
   #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages cyrus-sasl)
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages gnome)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gnupg)
   #:use-module (gnu packages golang)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages gperf)
   #:use-module (gnu packages graphviz)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
   #:use-module (gnu packages haskell)
@@ -79,8 +84,10 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
   #:use-module (gnu packages nettle)
   #:use-module (gnu packages networking)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages ocaml)
   #:use-module (gnu packages onc-rpc)
   #:use-module (gnu packages package-management)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
   #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
   #:use-module (gnu packages polkit)
@@ -2032,3 +2039,99 @@ administrators and developers in managing the database.")
 libosinfo library.  It provides information about guest operating systems for
 use with virtualization provisioning tools")
     (license license:lgpl2.0+)))
+
+(define-public libguestfs
+  (package
+    (name "libguestfs")
+    (version "1.42.0")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append
+                    "https://download.libguestfs.org/"
+                    (version-major+minor version)
+                    "-stable/libguestfs-"
+                    version
+                    ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "097hfi53w5lhf3im9l1lrymzv07ksyi1zcmg8bqrg9daycn1kvjg"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(;; XXX: I'm not sure why runpath validation doesn't work
+       #:validate-runpath? #f
+       ;; XXX: It's possible to get at least some of the tests to work
+       #:tests? #f
+       #:configure-flags (list "--disable-gnulib-tests"
+                               "--disable-daemon"
+                               "--disable-appliance"
+                               "--with-distro=none"
+                               "--disable-static")
+       ;; Installation is discouraged because users might want to have multiple
+       ;; versions installed at once. For that reason we have to specify
+       ;; "REALLY_INSTALL=yes" to install
+       #:make-flags (list "REALLY_INSTALL=yes")
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-before 'configure 'fix-configure
+           (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             ;; Our ncurses package doesn't have a binary called
+             ;; "ncurses6-config". It probably should though
+             (substitute* "configure"
+               (("ncurses6-config")
+                "ncursesw6-config"))
+             ;; Hard code paths to ld and file in the configure script
+             (substitute* "configure"
+               (("/usr/bin/ld")
+                (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "ld-wrapper") "/bin/ld"))
+               (("/usr/bin/file")
+                (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "file") "/bin/file")))
+             #t))
+         (add-before 'check 'fix-tests
+           (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (let ((bash (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "bash") "/bin/bash")))
+               (setenv "SHELL" bash))
+             #t))
+         (add-before 'install 'patch-ocaml-installdir
+           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
+               ;; Force ocaml installdir to be correct
+               (substitute* "ocaml/Makefile"
+                 (("\\$\\(DESTDIR\\)\\$\\(OCAMLLIB\\)")
+                  (string-append
+                   out "/lib/ocaml/site-lib"))))
+             #t)))))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("bison" ,bison)
+       ("curl" ,curl)
+       ("flex" ,flex)
+       ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
+    (inputs
+     `(("augeas" ,augeas)
+       ("cdrkit-libre" ,cdrkit-libre)
+       ("cpio" ,cpio)
+       ("fuse" ,fuse)
+       ("gperf" ,gperf)
+       ("gperf" ,gperf)
+       ("jansson" ,jansson)
+       ("libselinux" ,libselinux)
+       ("libtirpc" ,libtirpc)
+       ("libvirt" ,libvirt)
+       ("libxml2" ,libxml2)
+       ("util-linux" ,util-linux) ; getopt
+       ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
+       ("ocaml" ,ocaml)
+       ("ocaml-findlib" ,ocaml-findlib)
+       ("ocaml-hivex" ,ocaml-hivex)
+       ("pcre" ,pcre)
+       ("perl" ,perl)
+       ("qemu" ,qemu)))
+    (home-page "https://libguestfs.org/")
+    (synopsis "Tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk
+images")
+    (description "libguestfs is a C library and a set of tools for accessing
+and modifying virtual disk images used in platform virtualization.  The tools
+can be used for viewing and editing virtual machines (VMs) managed by libvirt
+and files inside VMs, scripting changes to VMs, and creating VMs.")
+    ;; The library files are released under LGPLv2.1 or later.
+    ;; The programs ;; are released under GPLv2+.
+    (license (list license:lgpl2.1+ license:gpl2+))))
