diff --git a/include/qemu/sockets.h b/include/qemu/sockets.h
index 0be68de..49499f2 100644
--- a/include/qemu/sockets.h
+++ b/include/qemu/sockets.h
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 #include <winsock2.h>
 #include <ws2tcpip.h>
 
-#define socket_error() WSAGetLastError()
-
 int inet_aton(const char *cp, struct in_addr *ia);
 
 #else
@@ -20,7 +18,6 @@ int inet_aton(const char *cp, struct in_addr *ia);
 #include <netdb.h>
 #include <sys/un.h>
 
-#define socket_error() errno
 #define closesocket(s) close(s)
 
 #endif /* !_WIN32 */
diff --git a/include/sysemu/os-posix.h b/include/sysemu/os-posix.h
index 5b9c4d6..e9fec2e 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/os-posix.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/os-posix.h
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ void os_daemonize(void);
 void os_setup_post(void);
 int os_mlock(void);
 
+#define socket_error() errno
+
 typedef struct timeval qemu_timeval;
 #define qemu_gettimeofday(tp) gettimeofday(tp, NULL)
 
diff --git a/include/sysemu/os-win32.h b/include/sysemu/os-win32.h
index fbed346..239771d 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/os-win32.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/os-win32.h
@@ -29,32 +29,6 @@
 #include <winsock2.h>
 #include <windows.h>
 
-/* Workaround for older versions of MinGW. */
-#ifndef ECONNREFUSED
-# define ECONNREFUSED WSAECONNREFUSED
-#endif
-#ifndef EINPROGRESS
-# define EINPROGRESS  WSAEINPROGRESS
-#endif
-#ifndef EHOSTUNREACH
-# define EHOSTUNREACH WSAEHOSTUNREACH
-#endif
-#ifndef EINTR
-# define EINTR        WSAEINTR
-#endif
-#ifndef EINPROGRESS
-# define EINPROGRESS  WSAEINPROGRESS
-#endif
-#ifndef ENETUNREACH
-# define ENETUNREACH  WSAENETUNREACH
-#endif
-#ifndef ENOTCONN
-# define ENOTCONN     WSAENOTCONN
-#endif
-#ifndef EWOULDBLOCK
-# define EWOULDBLOCK  WSAEWOULDBLOCK
-#endif
-
 #if defined(_WIN64)
 /* On w64, setjmp is implemented by _setjmp which needs a second parameter.
  * If this parameter is NULL, longjump does no stack unwinding.
@@ -80,6 +54,7 @@ struct tm *gmtime_r(const time_t *timep, struct tm *result);
 struct tm *localtime_r(const time_t *timep, struct tm *result);
 #endif /* CONFIG_LOCALTIME_R */
 
+int socket_error(void);
 
 static inline void os_setup_signal_handling(void) {}
 static inline void os_daemonize(void) {}
diff --git a/util/oslib-win32.c b/util/oslib-win32.c
index 438cfa4..1f717ee 100644
--- a/util/oslib-win32.c
+++ b/util/oslib-win32.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * os-win32.c
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
- * Copyright (c) 2010 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Red Hat, Inc.
  *
  * QEMU library functions for win32 which are shared between QEMU and
  * the QEMU tools.
@@ -144,6 +144,83 @@ int socket_set_fast_reuse(int fd)
     return 0;
 }
 
+
+int socket_error(void)
+{
+    switch (WSAGetLastError()) {
+    case 0:
+        return 0;
+    case WSAEINTR:
+        return EINTR;
+    case WSAEINVAL:
+        return EINVAL;
+    case WSA_INVALID_HANDLE:
+        return EBADF;
+    case WSA_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY:
+        return ENOMEM;
+    case WSA_INVALID_PARAMETER:
+        return EINVAL;
+    case WSAENAMETOOLONG:
+        return ENAMETOOLONG;
+    case WSAENOTEMPTY:
+        return ENOTEMPTY;
+    case WSAEWOULDBLOCK:
+         /* not using EWOULDBLOCK as we don't want code to have
+          * to check both EWOULDBLOCK and EAGAIN */
+        return EAGAIN;
+    case WSAEINPROGRESS:
+        return EINPROGRESS;
+    case WSAEALREADY:
+        return EALREADY;
+    case WSAENOTSOCK:
+        return ENOTSOCK;
+    case WSAEDESTADDRREQ:
+        return EDESTADDRREQ;
+    case WSAEMSGSIZE:
+        return EMSGSIZE;
+    case WSAEPROTOTYPE:
+        return EPROTOTYPE;
+    case WSAENOPROTOOPT:
+        return ENOPROTOOPT;
+    case WSAEPROTONOSUPPORT:
+        return EPROTONOSUPPORT;
+    case WSAEOPNOTSUPP:
+        return EOPNOTSUPP;
+    case WSAEAFNOSUPPORT:
+        return EAFNOSUPPORT;
+    case WSAEADDRINUSE:
+        return EADDRINUSE;
+    case WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL:
+        return EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+    case WSAENETDOWN:
+        return ENETDOWN;
+    case WSAENETUNREACH:
+        return ENETUNREACH;
+    case WSAENETRESET:
+        return ENETRESET;
+    case WSAECONNABORTED:
+        return ECONNABORTED;
+    case WSAECONNRESET:
+        return ECONNRESET;
+    case WSAENOBUFS:
+        return ENOBUFS;
+    case WSAEISCONN:
+        return EISCONN;
+    case WSAENOTCONN:
+        return ENOTCONN;
+    case WSAETIMEDOUT:
+        return ETIMEDOUT;
+    case WSAECONNREFUSED:
+        return ECONNREFUSED;
+    case WSAELOOP:
+        return ELOOP;
+    case WSAEHOSTUNREACH:
+        return EHOSTUNREACH;
+    default:
+        return EIO;
+    }
+}
+
 int inet_aton(const char *cp, struct in_addr *ia)
 {
     uint32_t addr = inet_addr(cp);
