diff --git a/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py b/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py
index a4ff0f01c21812e6844ee7aec9bd08c4ecc81698..958d6ad6b8edc57b005eb17083bd6f353a118e65 100644
--- a/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py
+++ b/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ class VirtualMachine(object):
 
     def iter_nics(self):
         for nic in et.ElementTree().parse(
-            StringIO(self.lv_dom.XMLDesc(0))
+            StringIO(self.lv_dom.XMLDesc(libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE))
         ).findall('devices/interface'):
             if nic.get('type') == 'bridge':
                 try: