diff --git a/base/comps/components-full.toml b/base/comps/components-full.toml
index f0a22383e21..6b4beecd5f5 100644
--- a/base/comps/components-full.toml
+++ b/base/comps/components-full.toml
@@ -2175,7 +2175,6 @@
 [components.libvirt-dbus]
 [components.libvirt-glib]
 [components.libvirt-python]
-[components.libvirt]
 [components.libvisio]
 [components.libvisual]
 [components.libvma]
diff --git a/base/comps/libvirt/libvirt.comp.toml b/base/comps/libvirt/libvirt.comp.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f66ac4108c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/libvirt/libvirt.comp.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[components.libvirt]
+
+# Disable Xen/libxl driver — not applicable to Azure Linux's Hyper-V/KVM environment.
+# The upstream spec enables libxl by default on x86_64/aarch64 when %fedora is set.
+[components.libvirt.build]
+without = ["libxl"]