diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/fakelibvirt.py b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/fakelibvirt.py
index 46d33611284c..b6cda76c336c 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/fakelibvirt.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/fakelibvirt.py
@@ -1714,6 +1714,16 @@ virSecret = Secret
 virNWFilter = NWFilter
 
 
+# A private libvirt-python class and global only provided here for testing to
+# ensure it's not returned by libvirt.host.Host.get_libvirt_proxy_classes.
+class FakeHandler(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+
+_EventAddHandleFunc = FakeHandler
+
+
 class FakeLibvirtFixture(fixtures.Fixture):
     """Performs global setup/stubbing for all libvirt tests.
     """
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_host.py b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_host.py
index c9411d6eb756..4c4b1d45c8b8 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_host.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_host.py
@@ -1322,8 +1322,9 @@ class LibvirtTpoolProxyTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase):
         self.assertIn(fakelibvirt.virSecret, proxy_classes)
         self.assertIn(fakelibvirt.virNWFilter, proxy_classes)
 
-        # Assert that we filtered out libvirtError
+        # Assert that we filtered out libvirtError and any private classes
         self.assertNotIn(fakelibvirt.libvirtError, proxy_classes)
+        self.assertNotIn(fakelibvirt._EventAddHandleFunc, proxy_classes)
 
     def test_tpool_get_connection(self):
         # Test that Host.get_connection() returns a tpool.Proxy
diff --git a/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py b/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py
index 603ab9925fd1..d8078dd38735 100644
--- a/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py
+++ b/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py
@@ -124,15 +124,15 @@ class Host(object):
     @staticmethod
     def _get_libvirt_proxy_classes(libvirt_module):
         """Return a tuple for tpool.Proxy's autowrap argument containing all
-        classes defined by the libvirt module except libvirtError.
+        public vir* classes defined by the libvirt module.
         """
 
         # Get a list of (name, class) tuples of libvirt classes
         classes = inspect.getmembers(libvirt_module, inspect.isclass)
 
-        # Return a list of just the classes, filtering out libvirtError because
-        # we don't need to proxy that
-        return tuple([cls[1] for cls in classes if cls[0] != 'libvirtError'])
+        # Return a list of just the vir* classes, filtering out libvirtError
+        # and any private globals pointing at private internal classes.
+        return tuple([cls[1] for cls in classes if cls[0].startswith("vir")])
 
     def _wrap_libvirt_proxy(self, obj):
         """Return an object wrapped in a tpool.Proxy using autowrap appropriate