diff --git a/nova/objects/fields.py b/nova/objects/fields.py
index 8c4fc299aab6..960fcc849641 100644
--- a/nova/objects/fields.py
+++ b/nova/objects/fields.py
@@ -757,8 +757,12 @@ class PciDeviceType(BaseNovaEnum):
     STANDARD = "type-PCI"
     SRIOV_PF = "type-PF"
     SRIOV_VF = "type-VF"
+    # NOTE(sean-k-mooney): The DB field is Column(String(8), nullable=False)
+    # type-vdpa is 9 long...and as Jay notes above the prefix is silly so
+    # for the new vdpa value we drop the prefix to avoid a DB migration
+    VDPA = "vdpa"
 
-    ALL = (STANDARD, SRIOV_PF, SRIOV_VF)
+    ALL = (STANDARD, SRIOV_PF, SRIOV_VF, VDPA)
 
 
 class PCINUMAAffinityPolicy(BaseNovaEnum):
diff --git a/nova/objects/pci_device.py b/nova/objects/pci_device.py
index 14db00ebc3e9..2119a9ccdcc0 100644
--- a/nova/objects/pci_device.py
+++ b/nova/objects/pci_device.py
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ class PciDevice(base.NovaPersistentObject, base.NovaObject):
     # Version 1.4: Added parent_addr field
     # Version 1.5: Added 2 new device statuses: UNCLAIMABLE and UNAVAILABLE
     # Version 1.6: Added uuid field
-    VERSION = '1.6'
+    # Version 1.7: Added 'vdpa' to 'dev_type' field
+    VERSION = '1.7'
 
     fields = {
         'id': fields.IntegerField(),
@@ -140,6 +141,13 @@ class PciDevice(base.NovaPersistentObject, base.NovaObject):
                         status, target_version))
         if target_version < (1, 6) and 'uuid' in primitive:
             del primitive['uuid']
+        if target_version < (1, 7) and 'dev_type' in primitive:
+            dev_type = primitive['dev_type']
+            if dev_type == fields.PciDeviceType.VDPA:
+                raise exception.ObjectActionError(
+                    action='obj_make_compatible',
+                    reason='dev_type=%s not supported in version %s' % (
+                        dev_type, target_version))
 
     def update_device(self, dev_dict):
         """Sync the content from device dictionary to device object.
diff --git a/nova/pci/request.py b/nova/pci/request.py
index 1a451d873787..5a9c08232d6f 100644
--- a/nova/pci/request.py
+++ b/nova/pci/request.py
@@ -86,7 +86,13 @@ _ALIAS_SCHEMA = {
         },
         "device_type": {
             "type": "string",
-            "enum": list(obj_fields.PciDeviceType.ALL),
+            # NOTE(sean-k-mooney): vDPA devices cannot currently be used with
+            # alias-based PCI passthrough so we exclude it here
+            "enum": [
+                obj_fields.PciDeviceType.STANDARD,
+                obj_fields.PciDeviceType.SRIOV_PF,
+                obj_fields.PciDeviceType.SRIOV_VF,
+            ],
         },
         "numa_policy": {
             "type": "string",
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_objects.py b/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_objects.py
index 38761463f4dc..b2f4f0616d01 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_objects.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_objects.py
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ object_data = {
     'NetworkRequestList': '1.1-15ecf022a68ddbb8c2a6739cfc9f8f5e',
     'NicDiagnostics': '1.0-895e9ad50e0f56d5258585e3e066aea5',
     'PCIDeviceBus': '1.0-2b891cb77e42961044689f3dc2718995',
-    'PciDevice': '1.6-25ca0542a22bc25386a72c0065a79c01',
+    'PciDevice': '1.7-680e4c590aae154958ccf9677774413b',
     'PciDeviceList': '1.3-52ff14355491c8c580bdc0ba34c26210',
     'PciDevicePool': '1.1-3f5ddc3ff7bfa14da7f6c7e9904cc000',
     'PciDevicePoolList': '1.1-15ecf022a68ddbb8c2a6739cfc9f8f5e',
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_pci_device.py b/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_pci_device.py
index 88f5f2c1a838..845333622ca9 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_pci_device.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/objects/test_pci_device.py
@@ -224,6 +224,24 @@ class _TestPciDeviceObject(object):
         self.assertIsNotNone(dev.uuid)
         self.assertEqual(1, mock_create_uuid.call_count)
 
+    def test_dev_type_vdpa_1_6_fails(self):
+        ctxt = context.get_admin_context()
+        fake_dev = copy.deepcopy(fake_db_dev)
+        fake_dev['dev_type'] = fields.PciDeviceType.VDPA
+        dev = pci_device.PciDevice._from_db_object(
+            ctxt, pci_device.PciDevice(), fake_dev)
+        self.assertRaises(exception.ObjectActionError,
+                          dev.obj_to_primitive, '1.6')
+
+    def test_dev_type_vdpa_1_6(self):
+        ctxt = context.get_admin_context()
+        fake_dev = copy.deepcopy(fake_db_dev)
+        fake_dev['dev_type'] = fields.PciDeviceType.STANDARD
+        dev = pci_device.PciDevice._from_db_object(
+            ctxt, pci_device.PciDevice(), fake_dev)
+        dev.obj_make_compatible(dev.obj_to_primitive(), '1.6')
+        self.assertEqual(dev.dev_type, fake_dev['dev_type'])
+
     def test_save_empty_parent_addr(self):
         ctxt = context.get_admin_context()
         dev = pci_device.PciDevice._from_db_object(
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/pci/test_request.py b/nova/tests/unit/pci/test_request.py
index 74a6928b5a07..3c2ba5b61f26 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/pci/test_request.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/pci/test_request.py
@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ class PciRequestTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase):
         })
         self._test_get_alias_from_config_invalid(fake_alias)
 
+    def test_get_alias_from_config_device_type_vdpa(self):
+        fake_alias = jsonutils.dumps({
+            "name": "xxx",
+            "device_type": "vdpa",
+        })
+        self._test_get_alias_from_config_invalid(fake_alias)
+
     def test_get_alias_from_config_invalid_product_id(self):
         fake_alias = jsonutils.dumps({
             "name": "xxx",