diff --git a/alpine/Dockerfile b/alpine/Dockerfile
index 230045eee..f60e27da3 100644
--- a/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ COPY packages/diagnostics/etc /etc/
 COPY packages/automount/etc /etc/
 COPY packages/9pinit/etc /etc/
 COPY packages/ntp15m/etc /etc/
-COPY packages/qemu-user-static/qemu-* /usr/bin/
 COPY packages/qemu-user-static/etc /etc/
 
 RUN \
diff --git a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/.gitignore b/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e5fcd368..000000000
--- a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-qemu-arm-static
diff --git a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/Dockerfile b/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c5345415..000000000
--- a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-FROM debian:jessie
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install qemu-user-static
diff --git a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/Makefile b/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index d03803c29..000000000
--- a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-all: qemu-arm-static 
-
-qemu-arm-static :
-	docker build -t qemu-user-static:build .
-	docker run qemu-user-static:build cat /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static > qemu-arm-static
-	chmod 755 qemu-arm-static
-	docker run qemu-user-static:build cat /var/lib/binfmts/qemu-arm > binfmt-arm
-
-clean:
-	rm -f qemu-arm-static binfmt-arm
diff --git a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/binfmt-arm b/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/binfmt-arm
deleted file mode 100644
index 66b3c65ba..000000000
--- a/alpine/packages/qemu-user-static/binfmt-arm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-qemu-user-static
-magic
-0
-\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x28\x00
-\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff\xff
-/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
-
-yes
-