diff --git a/fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.c b/fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.c
index 20f308b760..7748d32075 100644
--- a/fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.c
+++ b/fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.c
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <glib/gprintf.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
-#include <dirent.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <utime.h>
 #include <sys/uio.h>
diff --git a/hw/tpm/tpm_passthrough.c b/hw/tpm/tpm_passthrough.c
index 79a8f98af0..be160c19b3 100644
--- a/hw/tpm/tpm_passthrough.c
+++ b/hw/tpm/tpm_passthrough.c
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
  * License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
  */
 
-#include <dirent.h>
-
 #include "qemu-common.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qemu/error-report.h"
diff --git a/hw/usb/redirect.c b/hw/usb/redirect.c
index 25df25fd0f..34cf60d206 100644
--- a/hw/usb/redirect.c
+++ b/hw/usb/redirect.c
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 #include "qemu/iov.h"
 #include "sysemu/char.h"
 
-#include <dirent.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <usbredirparser.h>
diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c
index 4023d8e823..5d02099210 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/pci.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
  *  Copyright (C) 2008, IBM, Muli Ben-Yehuda (muli@il.ibm.com)
  */
 
-#include <dirent.h>
 #include <linux/vfio.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index d956f8db6c..fa651594a0 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <net/if.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
-#include <dirent.h>
 #include <netdb.h>
 #include <sys/select.h>
 #ifdef CONFIG_BSD