diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b169d78ed7..1b54ea3111 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -274,9 +274,6 @@ tools/tests/x86_emulator/x86_emulate
 tools/tests/x86_emulator/xop*.[ch]
 tools/tests/xen-access/xen-access
 tools/tests/xenstore/xs-test
-tools/tests/regression/installed/*
-tools/tests/regression/build/*
-tools/tests/regression/downloads/*
 tools/tests/mem-sharing/memshrtool
 tools/tests/mce-test/tools/xen-mceinj
 tools/tests/vpci/list.h
diff --git a/tools/tests/Makefile b/tools/tests/Makefile
index ed3bed404b..9077fa14d3 100644
--- a/tools/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tools/tests/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 XEN_ROOT = $(CURDIR)/../..
 include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk
 
-CFLAGS  += $(CFLAGS_libxenctrl)
-LDLIBS += $(LDLIBS_libxenctrl)
-
 SUBDIRS-y :=
 SUBDIRS-$(CONFIG_X86) += cpu-policy
 SUBDIRS-$(CONFIG_X86) += mce-test
diff --git a/tools/tests/run_tests.sh b/tools/tests/run_tests.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index c492876b4b..0000000000
--- a/tools/tests/run_tests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# This runs the available unit-tests with all different supported
-# python versions.
-# 
-# To run this this must be 'cd'ed to the tests directory.
-#
-
-ENABLE_UNSUPPORTED=0
-
-function usage()
-{
-    printf "Usage: %s: [-u]\n" $0
-    printf "   -u: run test with unsupported python versions also\n"
-}
-
-function run_one_test()
-{
-    PYTHON=$1
-    PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=`echo $PYTHON | tr -d "-"`
-    echo "+++ Running tests with $PYTHON"
-    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./regression/installed/$PYTHON/lib
-    ./regression/installed/$PYTHON/bin/$PYTHON_EXECUTABLE \
-	utests/run_all_tests.py
-    echo "--- Finished tests with $PYTHON"
-}
-
-function run_all_tests()
-{
-    for PYTHON in $@;
-    do
-	run_one_test $PYTHON
-    done
-}
-
-while getopts u name
-do
-    case $name in
-	h)  usage; exit 0;;
-	u)  ENABLE_UNSUPPORTED=1;;
-	?)  usage; exit 2;;
-    esac
-done
-
-# Build the different python versions
-(cd regression && make -j4 runtime-environment)
-
-# Supported: when an unit test fails this should be seen as an error
-PYTHON_SUPPORTED="python-2.4 python-2.5 python-2.6"
-# Unsupported: failure should be seen as a hint
-PYTHON_UNSUPPORTED="python-3.1"
-
-export PYTHONPATH=`echo $PWD/../python/build/lib.*`:$PWD
-
-set -e
-run_all_tests $PYTHON_SUPPORTED
-
-if test $ENABLE_UNSUPPORTED -eq 1
-then
-    run_all_tests $PYTHON_UNSUPPORTED
-fi
diff --git a/tools/tests/utests/run_all_tests.py b/tools/tests/utests/run_all_tests.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7318c81ff2..0000000000
--- a/tools/tests/utests/run_all_tests.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#============================================================================
-# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public
-# License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-# Lesser General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-# License along with this library; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#============================================================================
-# Copyright (C) 2009 flonatel GmbH & Co. KG
-#============================================================================
-
-import unittest
-
-suite = unittest.TestSuite([])
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    testresult = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=3).run(suite)
-