diff --git a/package/qemu/qemu.mk b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
index a1bd7e5d6e..3f51e88e1c 100644
--- a/package/qemu/qemu.mk
+++ b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ QEMU_OPTS =
 
 QEMU_VARS = \
 	LIBTOOL=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/libtool \
-	PYTHON=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/python2 \
-	PYTHONPATH=$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR)/site-packages
+	PYTHON=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/python2
 
 # If we want to specify only a subset of targets, we must still enable all
 # of them, so that QEMU properly builds its list of default targets, from