diff --git a/virt-manager.spec.in b/virt-manager.spec.in
index 5562f5422..bc2f10bca 100644
--- a/virt-manager.spec.in
+++ b/virt-manager.spec.in
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ Requires: virt-manager-common = %{verrel}
 Requires: pygobject3
 Requires: gtk3
 Requires: libvirt-glib >= 0.0.9
-Requires: libxml2-python
 Requires: dconf
 Requires: dbus-x11