diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f473cf5637..7d0c8ec7cc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ $(SRC_PATH)/qga/qapi-schema.json $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/qapi-commands.py $(qapi-py)
 		"  GEN   $@")
 
 qapi-modules = $(SRC_PATH)/qapi-schema.json $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/common.json \
-               $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block.json $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block-core.json
+               $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block.json $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block-core.json \
+               $(SRC_PATH)/qapi-event.json
 
 qapi-types.c qapi-types.h :\
 $(qapi-modules) $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/qapi-types.py $(qapi-py)
diff --git a/qapi-event.json b/qapi-event.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
index 4334e8ff33..e8c55e21a4 100644
--- a/qapi-schema.json
+++ b/qapi-schema.json
@@ -3346,3 +3346,5 @@
 # Since: 2.1
 ##
 { 'command': 'query-acpi-ospm-status', 'returns': ['ACPIOSTInfo'] }
+
+{ 'include': 'qapi-event.json' }