diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
index 071d8d1bf0..910e82b4a5 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
@@ -1416,10 +1416,11 @@ static int lxcContainerSetupPivotRoot(virDomainDefPtr vmDef,
     if (lxcContainerPivotRoot(root) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
-    /* Gets rid of any existing stuff under /proc, since we need new
-     * namespace aware versions of those. We must do /proc second
-     * otherwise we won't find /proc/mounts :-) */
+    /* Gets rid of any existing stuff under /proc, /sys & /tmp
+     * We need new namespace aware versions of those. We must
+     * do /proc last otherwise we won't find /proc/mounts :-) */
     if (lxcContainerUnmountSubtree("/sys", false) < 0 ||
+        lxcContainerUnmountSubtree("/dev", false) < 0 ||
         lxcContainerUnmountSubtree("/proc", false) < 0)
         goto cleanup;