diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9d25745158bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "nbd-2.9.13";
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://nbd.sourceforge.net";
+    description = "map arbitrary files as block devices over the network";
+    license = "GPLv2";
+  };
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/nbd/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "d83da56a97ae70c6c52c994a64e960eaae0664fcadf1fc30f4c9f68c00d19da1";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [pkgconfig glib];
+
+  # Desirable, but doesn't work because glib is compiled without static
+  # libraries by default:
+  #
+  # configureFlags = "LDFLAGS=-static";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 512924915a92..0442a04436cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1105,6 +1105,11 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv perl;
   };
 
+  nbd = import ../tools/networking/nbd {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig;
+    inherit (gtkLibs) glib;
+  };
+
   nc6 = composedArgsAndFun (selectVersion ../tools/networking/nc6 "1.0") {
     inherit builderDefs;
   };