diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index b3cef0d502..394890e8be 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -11836,6 +11836,7 @@ virDomainMemoryDefParseXML(xmlNodePtr memdevNode,
     if (virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML(memdevNode, NULL, &def->info, flags) < 0)
         goto error;
 
+    ctxt->node = save;
     return def;
 
  error:
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-memory-hotplug-dimm.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-memory-hotplug-dimm.xml
index 78088e2127..fa6013abc2 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-memory-hotplug-dimm.xml
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-memory-hotplug-dimm.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
     <boot dev='hd'/>
   </os>
+  <idmap>
+    <uid start='0' target='1000' count='10'/>
+    <gid start='0' target='1000' count='10'/>
+  </idmap>
   <cpu>
     <topology sockets='2' cores='1' threads='1'/>
     <numa>