diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers
index a3711c79a5..d92c1e1876 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_lab_workers
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ openqa_repo: updates-testing
 # we are all NFS workers for now at least
 openqa_nfs_worker: true
 
-# qemu build with fix for snapshots on qxl; not a scratch build,
-# just getting it deployed ahead of the updates-testing push
-openqa_scratch: ["78533572"]
-
 deployment_type: stg
 freezes: false
 
diff --git a/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml b/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml
index ff86b111df..a42f5b55c6 100644
--- a/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 
 - name: Install required packages
   package:
-    name: ['openqa-worker', 'os-autoinst', 'qemu-common']
+    name: ['openqa-worker', 'os-autoinst']
     state: latest
     enablerepo: "{{ openqa_repo }}"
   notify: