diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/default.nix
index c1ef20b7aa0..0023cf44f33 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/nova/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   pythonPath = with pythonPackages;
     [ setuptools eventlet greenlet gflags netaddr sqlalchemy carrot routes
-      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy boto_1_9 twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
+      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
       distutils_extra simplejson readline glance cheetah lockfile httplib2
       # !!! should libvirt be a build-time dependency?  Note that
       # libxml2Python is a dependency of libvirt.py.
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virt-manager/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virt-manager/default.nix
index 9df6967704a..e451ff79a94 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virt-manager/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virt-manager/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs =
     [ eventlet greenlet gflags netaddr sqlalchemy carrot routes
-      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy boto_1_9 twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
+      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
       distutils_extra simplejson readline glance cheetah lockfile httplib2
       urlgrabber virtinst pyGtkGlade pythonDBus gnome_python pygobject3
       libvirt libxml2Python ipaddr vte
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix
index 8e2da5c3b76..9b89a78f838 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtinst/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   pythonPath = with pythonPackages;
     [ setuptools eventlet greenlet gflags netaddr sqlalchemy carrot routes
-      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy boto_1_9 twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
+      paste_deploy m2crypto ipy twisted sqlalchemy_migrate
       distutils_extra simplejson readline glance cheetah lockfile httplib2
       # !!! should libvirt be a build-time dependency?  Note that
       # libxml2Python is a dependency of libvirt.py. 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index a8de2fe5bdd..6185be2739d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -900,33 +900,6 @@ rec {
    };
 
 
-  # euca2ools (and maybe Nova) needs boto 1.9, 2.0 doesn't work.
-  boto_1_9 = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "boto-1.9b";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://boto.googlecode.com/files/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha1 = "00a033b0a593c3ca82927867950f73d88b831155";
-    };
-
-    patches = [ ../development/python-modules/boto-1.9-python-2.7.patch ];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://code.google.com/p/boto/;
-
-      license = "bsd";
-
-      description = "Python interface to Amazon Web Services";
-
-      longDescription = ''
-        The boto module is an integrated interface to current and
-        future infrastructural services offered by Amazon Web
-        Services.  This includes S3, SQS, EC2, among others.
-      '';
-    };
-  });
-
-
   boto = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "boto-${version}";
     version = "2.32.0";