diff --git a/virt-manager-0.8.3-perms-qemu-user.patch b/virt-manager-0.8.3-perms-qemu-user.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1751f62..0000000
--- a/virt-manager-0.8.3-perms-qemu-user.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -rup virt-manager-0.8.1/src/virtManager/uihelpers.py new/src/virtManager/uihelpers.py
---- virt-manager-0.8.1/src/virtManager/uihelpers.py	2009-12-03 16:15:01.000000000 -0500
-+++ new/src/virtManager/uihelpers.py	2009-12-03 17:15:09.101994000 -0500
-@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTICAL_MEDIA_KEY = 4
- # may use a nonroot user, so simply changing this will cause several UI
- # pieces to attempt to verify that permissions are correct. Eventually this
- # should be exposed via capabilities so we can determine this programmatically.
--QEMU_SYSTEM_EMULATOR_USER = "root"
-+QEMU_SYSTEM_EMULATOR_USER = "qemu"
- 
- ##############################################################
- # Initialize an error object to use for validation functions #