diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 69631fad3b..a1a40577c9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3296,7 +3296,7 @@ done
 ##########################################
 # glib support probe
 
-glib_req_ver=2.48
+glib_req_ver=2.50
 glib_modules=gthread-2.0
 if test "$modules" = yes; then
     glib_modules="$glib_modules gmodule-export-2.0"
diff --git a/include/glib-compat.h b/include/glib-compat.h
index 4542e920d5..f3b2eb04da 100644
--- a/include/glib-compat.h
+++ b/include/glib-compat.h
@@ -68,15 +68,6 @@
  * without generating warnings.
  */
 
-#if defined(_WIN32) && !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 50, 0)
-/*
- * g_poll has a problem on Windows when using
- * timeouts < 10ms, so use wrapper.
- */
-#define g_poll(fds, nfds, timeout) g_poll_fixed(fds, nfds, timeout)
-gint g_poll_fixed(GPollFD *fds, guint nfds, gint timeout);
-#endif
-
 #if defined(G_OS_UNIX)
 /*
  * Note: The fallback implementation is not MT-safe, and it returns a copy of
diff --git a/util/oslib-win32.c b/util/oslib-win32.c
index 05e4ee5033..ca99356fdf 100644
--- a/util/oslib-win32.c
+++ b/util/oslib-win32.c
@@ -347,210 +347,6 @@ const char *qemu_get_exec_dir(void)
     return exec_dir;
 }
 
-#if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 50, 0)
-/*
- * The original implementation of g_poll from glib has a problem on Windows
- * when using timeouts < 10 ms.
- *
- * Whenever g_poll is called with timeout < 10 ms, it does a quick poll instead
- * of wait. This causes significant performance degradation of QEMU.
- *
- * The following code is a copy of the original code from glib/gpoll.c
- * (glib commit 20f4d1820b8d4d0fc4447188e33efffd6d4a88d8 from 2014-02-19).
- * Some debug code was removed and the code was reformatted.
- * All other code modifications are marked with 'QEMU'.
- */
-
-/*
- * gpoll.c: poll(2) abstraction
- * Copyright 1998 Owen Taylor
- * Copyright 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * 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/>.
- */
-
-static int poll_rest(gboolean poll_msgs, HANDLE *handles, gint nhandles,
-                     GPollFD *fds, guint nfds, gint timeout)
-{
-    DWORD ready;
-    GPollFD *f;
-    int recursed_result;
-
-    if (poll_msgs) {
-        /* Wait for either messages or handles
-         * -> Use MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx
-         */
-        ready = MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx(nhandles, handles, timeout,
-                                            QS_ALLINPUT, MWMO_ALERTABLE);
-
-        if (ready == WAIT_FAILED) {
-            gchar *emsg = g_win32_error_message(GetLastError());
-            g_warning("MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx failed: %s", emsg);
-            g_free(emsg);
-        }
-    } else if (nhandles == 0) {
-        /* No handles to wait for, just the timeout */
-        if (timeout == INFINITE) {
-            ready = WAIT_FAILED;
-        } else {
-            SleepEx(timeout, TRUE);
-            ready = WAIT_TIMEOUT;
-        }
-    } else {
-        /* Wait for just handles
-         * -> Use WaitForMultipleObjectsEx
-         */
-        ready =
-            WaitForMultipleObjectsEx(nhandles, handles, FALSE, timeout, TRUE);
-        if (ready == WAIT_FAILED) {
-            gchar *emsg = g_win32_error_message(GetLastError());
-            g_warning("WaitForMultipleObjectsEx failed: %s", emsg);
-            g_free(emsg);
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (ready == WAIT_FAILED) {
-        return -1;
-    } else if (ready == WAIT_TIMEOUT || ready == WAIT_IO_COMPLETION) {
-        return 0;
-    } else if (poll_msgs && ready == WAIT_OBJECT_0 + nhandles) {
-        for (f = fds; f < &fds[nfds]; ++f) {
-            if (f->fd == G_WIN32_MSG_HANDLE && f->events & G_IO_IN) {
-                f->revents |= G_IO_IN;
-            }
-        }
-
-        /* If we have a timeout, or no handles to poll, be satisfied
-         * with just noticing we have messages waiting.
-         */
-        if (timeout != 0 || nhandles == 0) {
-            return 1;
-        }
-
-        /* If no timeout and handles to poll, recurse to poll them,
-         * too.
-         */
-        recursed_result = poll_rest(FALSE, handles, nhandles, fds, nfds, 0);
-        return (recursed_result == -1) ? -1 : 1 + recursed_result;
-    } else if (/* QEMU: removed the following unneeded statement which causes
-                * a compiler warning: ready >= WAIT_OBJECT_0 && */
-               ready < WAIT_OBJECT_0 + nhandles) {
-        for (f = fds; f < &fds[nfds]; ++f) {
-            if ((HANDLE) f->fd == handles[ready - WAIT_OBJECT_0]) {
-                f->revents = f->events;
-            }
-        }
-
-        /* If no timeout and polling several handles, recurse to poll
-         * the rest of them.
-         */
-        if (timeout == 0 && nhandles > 1) {
-            /* Remove the handle that fired */
-            int i;
-            for (i = ready - WAIT_OBJECT_0 + 1; i < nhandles; i++) {
-                handles[i-1] = handles[i];
-            }
-            nhandles--;
-            recursed_result = poll_rest(FALSE, handles, nhandles, fds, nfds, 0);
-            return (recursed_result == -1) ? -1 : 1 + recursed_result;
-        }
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    return 0;
-}
-
-gint g_poll_fixed(GPollFD *fds, guint nfds, gint timeout)
-{
-    HANDLE handles[MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS];
-    gboolean poll_msgs = FALSE;
-    GPollFD *f;
-    gint nhandles = 0;
-    int retval;
-
-    for (f = fds; f < &fds[nfds]; ++f) {
-        if (f->fd == G_WIN32_MSG_HANDLE && (f->events & G_IO_IN)) {
-            poll_msgs = TRUE;
-        } else if (f->fd > 0) {
-            /* Don't add the same handle several times into the array, as
-             * docs say that is not allowed, even if it actually does seem
-             * to work.
-             */
-            gint i;
-
-            for (i = 0; i < nhandles; i++) {
-                if (handles[i] == (HANDLE) f->fd) {
-                    break;
-                }
-            }
-
-            if (i == nhandles) {
-                if (nhandles == MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS) {
-                    g_warning("Too many handles to wait for!\n");
-                    break;
-                } else {
-                    handles[nhandles++] = (HANDLE) f->fd;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    for (f = fds; f < &fds[nfds]; ++f) {
-        f->revents = 0;
-    }
-
-    if (timeout == -1) {
-        timeout = INFINITE;
-    }
-
-    /* Polling for several things? */
-    if (nhandles > 1 || (nhandles > 0 && poll_msgs)) {
-        /* First check if one or several of them are immediately
-         * available
-         */
-        retval = poll_rest(poll_msgs, handles, nhandles, fds, nfds, 0);
-
-        /* If not, and we have a significant timeout, poll again with
-         * timeout then. Note that this will return indication for only
-         * one event, or only for messages. We ignore timeouts less than
-         * ten milliseconds as they are mostly pointless on Windows, the
-         * MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx() call will timeout right away
-         * anyway.
-         *
-         * Modification for QEMU: replaced timeout >= 10 by timeout > 0.
-         */
-        if (retval == 0 && (timeout == INFINITE || timeout > 0)) {
-            retval = poll_rest(poll_msgs, handles, nhandles,
-                               fds, nfds, timeout);
-        }
-    } else {
-        /* Just polling for one thing, so no need to check first if
-         * available immediately
-         */
-        retval = poll_rest(poll_msgs, handles, nhandles, fds, nfds, timeout);
-    }
-
-    if (retval == -1) {
-        for (f = fds; f < &fds[nfds]; ++f) {
-            f->revents = 0;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return retval;
-}
-#endif
-
 int getpagesize(void)
 {
     SYSTEM_INFO system_info;
