diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 180afe4333..0d229386eb 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -2464,7 +2464,7 @@
             The <code>name</code> attribute selects which timer is
             being modified, and can be one of
             "platform" (currently unsupported),
-            "hpet" (libxl, xen, qemu), "kvmclock" (qemu),
+            "hpet" (libxl, xen, qemu, lxc), "kvmclock" (qemu),
             "pit" (qemu), "rtc" (qemu, lxc), "tsc" (libxl, qemu -
             <span class="since">since 3.2.0</span>), "hypervclock"
             (qemu - <span class="since">since 1.2.2</span>) or
diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c b/src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c
index 06605cb9ba..7df723a4da 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c
@@ -350,13 +350,15 @@ static int virLXCCgroupSetupDeviceACL(virDomainDefPtr def,
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_KVMCLOCK:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HYPERVCLOCK:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_PIT:
-        case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HPET:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_ARMVTIMER:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_LAST:
             break;
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_RTC:
             dev = "/dev/rtc0";
             break;
+        case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HPET:
+            dev = "/dev/hpet";
+            break;
         }
 
         if (!dev)
diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c b/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
index 85986babb8..453b435dd6 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
@@ -1557,7 +1557,6 @@ virLXCControllerSetupTimers(virLXCControllerPtr ctrl)
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_KVMCLOCK:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HYPERVCLOCK:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_PIT:
-        case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HPET:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_ARMVTIMER:
         case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_LAST:
             virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
@@ -1569,6 +1568,11 @@ virLXCControllerSetupTimers(virLXCControllerPtr ctrl)
             path = g_strdup_printf("/%s/%s.dev/%s", LXC_STATE_DIR,
                                    def->name, "/rtc");
             break;
+        case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HPET:
+            timer_dev = "/dev/hpet";
+            path = g_strdup_printf("/%s/%s.dev/%s", LXC_STATE_DIR,
+                                   ctrl->def->name, "/hpet");
+            break;
         }
 
         if (!timer_dev)