diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index b52dfbf4..f2da943e 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ use PVE::Tools qw(run_command file_read_firstline file_get_contents dir_glob_for
 
 use PVE::QMPClient;
 use PVE::QemuConfig;
-use PVE::QemuServer::Helpers qw(min_version config_aware_timeout windows_version);
+use PVE::QemuServer::Helpers qw(config_aware_timeout min_version parse_number_sets windows_version);
 use PVE::QemuServer::Cloudinit;
 use PVE::QemuServer::CGroup;
 use PVE::QemuServer::CPUConfig qw(print_cpu_device get_cpu_options);
@@ -1930,20 +1930,6 @@ sub print_vga_device {
     return "$type,id=${vgaid}${memory}${max_outputs}${pciaddr}${edidoff}";
 }
 
-sub parse_number_sets {
-    my ($set) = @_;
-    my $res = [];
-    foreach my $part (split(/;/, $set)) {
-	if ($part =~ /^\s*(\d+)(?:-(\d+))?\s*$/) {
-	    die "invalid range: $part ($2 < $1)\n" if defined($2) && $2 < $1;
-	    push @$res, [ $1, $2 ];
-	} else {
-	    die "invalid range: $part\n";
-	}
-    }
-    return $res;
-}
-
 sub parse_numa {
     my ($data) = @_;
 
diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm b/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm
index ee3979df..99eb33a0 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use base 'Exporter';
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
 min_version
 config_aware_timeout
+parse_number_sets
 windows_version
 );
 
@@ -186,6 +187,20 @@ sub pvecfg_min_version {
     die "internal error: cannot check version of invalid string '$verstr'";
 }
 
+sub parse_number_sets {
+    my ($set) = @_;
+    my $res = [];
+    foreach my $part (split(/;/, $set)) {
+	if ($part =~ /^\s*(\d+)(?:-(\d+))?\s*$/) {
+	    die "invalid range: $part ($2 < $1)\n" if defined($2) && $2 < $1;
+	    push @$res, [ $1, $2 ];
+	} else {
+	    die "invalid range: $part\n";
+	}
+    }
+    return $res;
+}
+
 sub windows_version {
     my ($ostype) = @_;