diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index bc607a1a9..39054c476 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -69,6 +69,27 @@ domain => {
 		disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",      
 	},
 },
+###############################################################################
+# This is a table for kvm plugin to use to maintain persistent config data
+# not feasibly determined from contextual data
+###############################################################################
+kvm_nodedata => {      
+	cols => [qw(node xml comments disable)], 
+	keys => [qw(node)],
+        required => [qw(node xml)],
+	table_desc => 'Persistant store for KVM plugin, not intended for manual modification.',
+    types => {
+	xml => 'VARCHAR(16000)', #I like text...  
+    },
+	descriptions => {
+        node => 'The node corresponding to the virtual machine',
+        xml => 'The XML description generated by xCAT, fleshed out by libvirt, and stored for reuse',
+	    comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
+	    disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",
+	},
+},
+
+
 #domains => {
 #    cols => [qw(domain nameserver authserver realm comments disable)],
 #    keys => ['domain'],
diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/schema/kvm_nodedata.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/schema/kvm_nodedata.pm
deleted file mode 100644
index 181f62486..000000000
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/schema/kvm_nodedata.pm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# IBM(c) 2007 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
-package xCAT_schema::kvm_nodedata;
-
-###############################################################################
-# This is a table for kvm plugin to use to maintain persistent config data
-# not feasibly determined from contextual data
-###############################################################################
-%tabspec = (
-    kvm_nodedata => {      
-	cols => [qw(node xml comments disable)], 
-	keys => [qw(node)],
-        required => [qw(node xml)],
-	table_desc => 'Persistant store for KVM plugin, not intended for human modification.',
-	descriptions => {
-        node => 'The node corresponding to the virtual machine',
-        xml => 'The XML description generated by xCAT, fleshed out by libvirt, and stored for reuse',
-	    comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
-	    disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",
-	},
-    },
-); # end of tabspec definition
-
-#Since this is only used by a plugin and not intended for human consumption,
-#the defspecs are skipped
-
-1;
-
-