diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6b184cb24..522e673be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -115,6 +115,17 @@ Two additional parameters were added to spdk_sock_get_addr() for the server
 port and client port. These parameters are named "sport" and "cport"
 respectively.
 
+### Virtio
+
+The following RPC commands have been deprecated:
+ - construct_virtio_user_scsi_bdev
+ - construct_virtio_pci_scsi_bdev
+ - construct_virtio_user_blk_bdev
+ - construct_virtio_pci_blk_bdev
+
+They're replaced with a single `construct_virtio_dev` command that can create
+any type of Virtio bdev(s).
+
 ## v18.07:
 
 ### bdev
diff --git a/doc/bdev.md b/doc/bdev.md
index cdddc3af7..5c9114675 100644
--- a/doc/bdev.md
+++ b/doc/bdev.md
@@ -388,15 +388,22 @@ To remove a block device representation use the delete_pmem_bdev command.
 
 # Virtio Block {#bdev_config_virtio_blk}
 
-The Virtio-Block driver can expose an SPDK bdev from a Virtio-Block device.
+The Virtio-Block driver allows creating SPDK bdevs from Virtio-Block devices.
 
-Virtio-Block bdevs are constructed the same way as Virtio-SCSI ones.
+The following command creates a Virtio-Block device named `VirtioBlk0` from a vhost-user
+socket `/tmp/vhost.0` exposed directly by SPDK @ref vhost. Optional `vq-count` and
+`vq-size` params specify number of request queues and queue depth to be used.
 
-`rpc.py construct_virtio_user_blk_bdev /tmp/virtio.0 VirtioBlk0 --vq-count 2 --vq-size 512`
+`rpc.py construct_virtio_dev --dev-type blk --trtype user --traddr /tmp/vhost.0 --vq-count 2 --vq-size 512 VirtioBlk0`
 
-`rpc.py construct_virtio_pci_blk_bdev 0000:01:00.0 VirtioBlk1`
+The driver can be also used inside QEMU-based VMs. The following command creates a Virtio
+Block device named `VirtioBlk0` from a Virtio PCI device at address `0000:00:01.0`.
+The entire configuration will be read automatically from PCI Configuration Space. It will
+reflect all parameters passed to QEMU's vhost-user-scsi-pci device.
 
-Virtio-BLK devices can be removed with the following command
+`rpc.py construct_virtio_dev --dev-type blk --trtype pci --traddr 0000:01:00.0 VirtioBlk1`
+
+Virtio-Block devices can be removed with the following command
 
 `rpc.py remove_virtio_bdev VirtioBlk0`
 
@@ -404,18 +411,11 @@ Virtio-BLK devices can be removed with the following command
 
 The Virtio-SCSI driver allows creating SPDK block devices from Virtio-SCSI LUNs.
 
-The following command creates a Virtio-SCSI device named `VirtioScsi0` from a vhost-user
-socket `/tmp/vhost.0` exposed directly by SPDK @ref vhost. Optional `vq-count` and
-`vq-size` params specify number of request queues and queue depth to be used.
+Virtio-SCSI bdevs are constructed the same way as Virtio-Block ones.
 
-`rpc.py construct_virtio_user_scsi_bdev /tmp/vhost.0 VirtioScsi0 --vq-count 2 --vq-size 512`
+`rpc.py construct_virtio_dev --dev-type scsi --trtype user --traddr /tmp/vhost.0 --vq-count 2 --vq-size 512 VirtioScsi0`
 
-The driver can be also used inside QEMU-based VMs. The following command creates a Virtio
-SCSI device named `VirtioScsi0` from a Virtio PCI device at address `0000:00:01.0`.
-The entire configuration will be read automatically from PCI Configuration Space. It will
-reflect all parameters passed to QEMU's vhost-user-scsi-pci device.
-
-`rpc.py construct_virtio_pci_scsi_bdev 0000:00:01.0 VirtioScsi0`
+`rpc.py construct_virtio_dev --dev-type scsi --trtype pci --traddr 0000:01:00.0 VirtioScsi0`
 
 Each Virtio-SCSI device may export up to 64 block devices named VirtioScsi0t0 ~ VirtioScsi0t63,
 one LUN (LUN0) per SCSI device. The above 2 commands will output names of all exposed bdevs.
diff --git a/lib/bdev/virtio/bdev_virtio_rpc.c b/lib/bdev/virtio/bdev_virtio_rpc.c
index 587eeedf9..96f6d795f 100644
--- a/lib/bdev/virtio/bdev_virtio_rpc.c
+++ b/lib/bdev/virtio/bdev_virtio_rpc.c
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ spdk_rpc_create_virtio_user_scsi_bdev(struct spdk_jsonrpc_request *request,
 	struct rpc_construct_virtio_scsi_dev *req;
 	int rc;
 
+	SPDK_WARNLOG("construct_virtio_user_scsi_bdev command has been deprecated and will be removed "
+		     "in the subsequent release. Please use construct_virtio_dev instead.\n");
+
 	req = calloc(1, sizeof(*req));
 	if (!req) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
@@ -156,6 +159,9 @@ spdk_rpc_construct_virtio_pci_scsi_dev(struct spdk_jsonrpc_request *request,
 	struct spdk_pci_addr pci_addr;
 	int rc;
 
+	SPDK_WARNLOG("construct_virtio_pci_scsi_bdev command has been deprecated and will be removed "
+		     "in the subsequent release. Please use construct_virtio_dev instead.\n");
+
 	req = calloc(1, sizeof(*req));
 	if (!req) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
@@ -366,6 +372,9 @@ spdk_rpc_create_virtio_user_blk_bdev(struct spdk_jsonrpc_request *request,
 	req.vq_count = SPDK_VIRTIO_USER_DEFAULT_VQ_COUNT;
 	req.vq_size = SPDK_VIRTIO_USER_DEFAULT_QUEUE_SIZE;
 
+	SPDK_WARNLOG("construct_virtio_user_blk_bdev command has been deprecated and will be removed "
+		     "in the subsequent release. Please use construct_virtio_dev instead.\n");
+
 	if (spdk_json_decode_object(params, rpc_construct_virtio_user_blk_dev,
 				    SPDK_COUNTOF(rpc_construct_virtio_user_blk_dev),
 				    &req)) {
@@ -414,6 +423,9 @@ spdk_rpc_create_virtio_pci_blk_bdev(struct spdk_jsonrpc_request *request,
 
 	req.pci_address = NULL;
 
+	SPDK_WARNLOG("construct_virtio_pci_blk_bdev command has been deprecated and will be removed "
+		     "in the subsequent release. Please use construct_virtio_dev instead.\n");
+
 	if (spdk_json_decode_object(params, rpc_construct_virtio_pci_blk_dev,
 				    SPDK_COUNTOF(rpc_construct_virtio_pci_blk_dev),
 				    &req)) {