diff --git a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-hcall.h b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-hcall.h
index cbc270eef3..9800c4b351 100644
--- a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-hcall.h
+++ b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-hcall.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Support for virtio hypercalls on s390x
  *
- * Copyright 2012 IBM Corp.
+ * Copyright IBM Corp. 2012, 2017
  * Author(s): Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
  *
  * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or (at
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@
 #ifndef HW_S390_VIRTIO_HCALL_H
 #define HW_S390_VIRTIO_HCALL_H
 
-#include "standard-headers/asm-s390/kvm_virtio.h"
 #include "standard-headers/asm-s390/virtio-ccw.h"
 
+/* The only thing that we need from the old kvm_virtio.h file */
+#define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_NOTIFY 0
+
 typedef int (*s390_virtio_fn)(const uint64_t *args);
 void s390_register_virtio_hypercall(uint64_t code, s390_virtio_fn fn);
 int s390_virtio_hypercall(CPUS390XState *env);
diff --git a/include/standard-headers/asm-s390/kvm_virtio.h b/include/standard-headers/asm-s390/kvm_virtio.h
deleted file mode 100644
index daad3249d2..0000000000
--- a/include/standard-headers/asm-s390/kvm_virtio.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * definition for virtio for kvm on s390
- *
- * Copyright IBM Corp. 2008
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 only)
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
- *
- *    Author(s): Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
- */
-
-#ifndef __KVM_S390_VIRTIO_H
-#define __KVM_S390_VIRTIO_H
-
-#include "standard-headers/linux/types.h"
-
-struct kvm_device_desc {
-	/* The device type: console, network, disk etc.  Type 0 terminates. */
-	uint8_t type;
-	/* The number of virtqueues (first in config array) */
-	uint8_t num_vq;
-	/*
-	 * The number of bytes of feature bits.  Multiply by 2: one for host
-	 * features and one for guest acknowledgements.
-	 */
-	uint8_t feature_len;
-	/* The number of bytes of the config array after virtqueues. */
-	uint8_t config_len;
-	/* A status byte, written by the Guest. */
-	uint8_t status;
-	uint8_t config[0];
-};
-
-/*
- * This is how we expect the device configuration field for a virtqueue
- * to be laid out in config space.
- */
-struct kvm_vqconfig {
-	/* The token returned with an interrupt. Set by the guest */
-	uint64_t token;
-	/* The address of the virtio ring */
-	uint64_t address;
-	/* The number of entries in the virtio_ring */
-	uint16_t num;
-
-};
-
-#define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_NOTIFY		0
-#define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RESET		1
-#define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_SET_STATUS	2
-
-/* The alignment to use between consumer and producer parts of vring.
- * This is pagesize for historical reasons. */
-#define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_RING_ALIGN	4096
-
-
-/* These values are supposed to be in ext_params on an interrupt */
-#define VIRTIO_PARAM_MASK		0xff
-#define VIRTIO_PARAM_VRING_INTERRUPT	0x0
-#define VIRTIO_PARAM_CONFIG_CHANGED	0x1
-#define VIRTIO_PARAM_DEV_ADD		0x2
-
-#endif
diff --git a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
index 76fd894a77..135a10d96a 100755
--- a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
+++ b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ for arch in $ARCHLIST; do
     rm -rf "$output/include/standard-headers/asm-$arch"
     mkdir -p "$output/include/standard-headers/asm-$arch"
     if [ $arch = s390 ]; then
-        cp_portable "$tmpdir/include/asm/kvm_virtio.h" "$output/include/standard-headers/asm-s390/"
         cp_portable "$tmpdir/include/asm/virtio-ccw.h" "$output/include/standard-headers/asm-s390/"
     fi
     if [ $arch = arm ]; then