diff --git a/monitor/misc.c b/monitor/misc.c
index b103bd0a92..55f3744053 100644
--- a/monitor/misc.c
+++ b/monitor/misc.c
@@ -231,8 +231,6 @@ static void monitor_init_qmp_commands(void)
 
     qmp_init_marshal(&qmp_commands);
 
-    qmp_register_command(&qmp_commands, "query-qmp-schema",
-                         qmp_query_qmp_schema, QCO_ALLOW_PRECONFIG);
     qmp_register_command(&qmp_commands, "device_add", qmp_device_add,
                          QCO_NO_OPTIONS);
 
diff --git a/monitor/monitor-internal.h b/monitor/monitor-internal.h
index 40903d6386..9c3a09cb01 100644
--- a/monitor/monitor-internal.h
+++ b/monitor/monitor-internal.h
@@ -183,7 +183,4 @@ void help_cmd(Monitor *mon, const char *name);
 void handle_hmp_command(MonitorHMP *mon, const char *cmdline);
 int hmp_compare_cmd(const char *name, const char *list);
 
-void qmp_query_qmp_schema(QDict *qdict, QObject **ret_data,
-                                 Error **errp);
-
 #endif
diff --git a/monitor/qmp-cmds-control.c b/monitor/qmp-cmds-control.c
index 513b547233..d152fd7e59 100644
--- a/monitor/qmp-cmds-control.c
+++ b/monitor/qmp-cmds-control.c
@@ -26,10 +26,14 @@
 
 #include "monitor-internal.h"
 #include "qemu-version.h"
+#include "qapi/compat-policy.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-commands-control.h"
+#include "qapi/qapi-commands-introspect.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-emit-events.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-introspect.h"
+#include "qapi/qapi-visit-introspect.h"
+#include "qapi/qobject-input-visitor.h"
 
 /*
  * Accept QMP capabilities in @list for @mon.
@@ -130,17 +134,18 @@ CommandInfoList *qmp_query_commands(Error **errp)
     return list;
 }
 
-/*
- * Minor hack: generated marshalling suppressed for this command
- * ('gen': false in the schema) so we can parse the JSON string
- * directly into QObject instead of first parsing it with
- * visit_type_SchemaInfoList() into a SchemaInfoList, then marshal it
- * to QObject with generated output marshallers, every time.  Instead,
- * we do it in test-qobject-input-visitor.c, just to make sure
- * qapi-gen.py's output actually conforms to the schema.
- */
-void qmp_query_qmp_schema(QDict *qdict, QObject **ret_data,
-                                 Error **errp)
+SchemaInfoList *qmp_query_qmp_schema(Error **errp)
 {
-    *ret_data = qobject_from_qlit(&qmp_schema_qlit);
+    QObject *obj = qobject_from_qlit(&qmp_schema_qlit);
+    Visitor *v = qobject_input_visitor_new(obj);
+    SchemaInfoList *schema = NULL;
+
+    /* test_visitor_in_qmp_introspect() ensures this can't fail */
+    visit_type_SchemaInfoList(v, NULL, &schema, &error_abort);
+    g_assert(schema);
+
+    qobject_unref(obj);
+    visit_free(v);
+
+    return schema;
 }
diff --git a/qapi/introspect.json b/qapi/introspect.json
index 944bb87a20..39bd303778 100644
--- a/qapi/introspect.json
+++ b/qapi/introspect.json
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 ##
 { 'command': 'query-qmp-schema',
   'returns': [ 'SchemaInfo' ],
-  'gen': false }                # just to simplify qmp_query_json()
+  'allow-preconfig': true }
 
 ##
 # @SchemaMetaType:
diff --git a/storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon.c b/storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon.c
index 268078ad2c..72900dc2ec 100644
--- a/storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon.c
+++ b/storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon.c
@@ -137,8 +137,6 @@ extern QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts;
 static void init_qmp_commands(void)
 {
     qmp_init_marshal(&qmp_commands);
-    qmp_register_command(&qmp_commands, "query-qmp-schema",
-                         qmp_query_qmp_schema, QCO_ALLOW_PRECONFIG);
 
     QTAILQ_INIT(&qmp_cap_negotiation_commands);
     qmp_register_command(&qmp_cap_negotiation_commands, "qmp_capabilities",