diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/xenstore_transport/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/xenstore_transport/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f0bb908e5dba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/xenstore_transport/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib, buildDunePackage, fetchFromGitHub, xenstore, lwt }:
+
+buildDunePackage rec {
+  pname = "xenstore_transport";
+  version = "1.3.0";
+
+  minimumOCamlVersion = "4.04";
+  useDune2 = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "xapi-project";
+    repo = "ocaml-xenstore-clients";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1kxxd9i4qiq98r7sgvl59iq2ni7y6drnv48qj580q5cyiyyc85q3";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ xenstore lwt ];
+
+  # requires a mounted xenfs and xen server
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Low-level libraries for connecting to a xenstore service on a xen host";
+    license = licenses.lgpl21Only;
+    homepage = "http://github.com/xapi-project/ocaml-xenstore-clients";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index de345c515ad0..580d76e49582 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -1093,6 +1093,8 @@ let
 
     xenstore = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/xenstore { };
 
+    xenstore_transport = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/xenstore_transport { };
+
     xmlm = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/xmlm { };
 
     xml-light = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/xml-light { };