diff --git a/lib/cli.py b/lib/cli.py
index 2fed4cfaeb815ca3869a9f10537db2b52ffc5e79..1bde7445460d3def794607eabf82ae20544ede3e 100644
--- a/lib/cli.py
+++ b/lib/cli.py
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ __all__ = [
   "FILESTORE_DIR_OPT",
   "FILESTORE_DRIVER_OPT",
   "HVOPTS_OPT",
+  "HYPERVISOR_OPT",
   "IALLOCATOR_OPT",
   "FORCE_OPT",
   "NOHDR_OPT",
@@ -521,6 +522,11 @@ HVOPTS_OPT =  cli_option("-H", "--hypervisor-parameters", type="keyval",
                          default={}, dest="hvparams",
                          help="Hypervisor parameters")
 
+HYPERVISOR_OPT = cli_option("-H", "--hypervisor-parameters", dest="hypervisor",
+                            help="Hypervisor and hypervisor options, in the"
+                            " format hypervisor:option=value,option=value,...",
+                            default=None, type="identkeyval")
+
 
 def _ParseArgs(argv, commands, aliases):
   """Parser for the command line arguments.
diff --git a/scripts/gnt-backup b/scripts/gnt-backup
index 0e404fa37249429eb2dc970508bf3df5c1fa6a3a..ba52b395968672be803b40f1a1bd31730a6fb855 100755
--- a/scripts/gnt-backup
+++ b/scripts/gnt-backup
@@ -242,10 +242,7 @@ import_opts = [
   IALLOCATOR_OPT,
   FILESTORE_DIR_OPT,
   FILESTORE_DRIVER_OPT,
-  cli_option("-H", "--hypervisor", dest="hypervisor",
-             help="Hypervisor and hypervisor options, in the format"
-             " hypervisor:option=value,option=value,...", default=None,
-             type="identkeyval"),
+  HYPERVISOR_OPT,
   ]
 
 commands = {
diff --git a/scripts/gnt-instance b/scripts/gnt-instance
index 144c5d6937916d17238f927995b34446e99f6ad3..3a52ae927dd88967dfa359aafa731250aa25d261 100755
--- a/scripts/gnt-instance
+++ b/scripts/gnt-instance
@@ -1393,10 +1393,7 @@ add_opts = [
   FILESTORE_DIR_OPT,
   FILESTORE_DRIVER_OPT,
   IALLOCATOR_OPT,
-  cli_option("-H", "--hypervisor", dest="hypervisor",
-             help="Hypervisor and hypervisor options, in the format"
-             " hypervisor:option=value,option=value,...", default=None,
-             type="identkeyval"),
+  HYPERVISOR_OPT,
   SUBMIT_OPT,
   ]