diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 333c61deba7..64a146e1d06 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -449,11 +449,6 @@
                               required: get_option('linux_io_uring'),
                               method: 'pkg-config', kwargs: static_kwargs)
 endif
-libxml2 = not_found
-if not get_option('libxml2').auto() or have_block
-  libxml2 = dependency('libxml-2.0', required: get_option('libxml2'),
-                       method: 'pkg-config', kwargs: static_kwargs)
-endif
 libnfs = not_found
 if not get_option('libnfs').auto() or have_block
   libnfs = dependency('libnfs', version: '>=1.9.3',
@@ -3489,7 +3484,6 @@
 summary_info += {'lzfse support':     liblzfse}
 summary_info += {'zstd support':      zstd}
 summary_info += {'NUMA host support': config_host.has_key('CONFIG_NUMA')}
-summary_info += {'libxml2':           libxml2}
 summary_info += {'capstone':          capstone_opt == 'internal' ? capstone_opt : capstone}
 summary_info += {'libpmem support':   libpmem}
 summary_info += {'libdaxctl support': libdaxctl}
diff --git a/block/meson.build b/block/meson.build
index deb73ca389f..90dc9983e56 100644
--- a/block/meson.build
+++ b/block/meson.build
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@
   'qed-table.c',
   'qed.c',
 ))
-block_ss.add(when: [libxml2, 'CONFIG_PARALLELS'],
-             if_true: files('parallels.c', 'parallels-ext.c'))
+block_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_PARALLELS', if_true: files('parallels.c', 'parallels-ext.c'))
 block_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_WIN32', if_true: files('file-win32.c', 'win32-aio.c'))
 block_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_POSIX', if_true: [files('file-posix.c'), coref, iokit])
 block_ss.add(when: libiscsi, if_true: files('iscsi-opts.c'))
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 921967eddbb..95d527f7732 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ option('libudev', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
        description: 'Use libudev to enumerate host devices')
 option('libusb', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
        description: 'libusb support for USB passthrough')
-option('libxml2', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
-       description: 'libxml2 support for Parallels image format')
 option('linux_aio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
        description: 'Linux AIO support')
 option('linux_io_uring', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5caa739db48..5e501110601 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@ sub help {
 	qr{target_(?:u)?long},
 	qr{hwaddr},
         # external libraries
-	qr{xml${Ident}},
 	qr{xen\w+_handle},
 	# Glib definitions
 	qr{gchar},
diff --git a/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure b/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure
index e05f2fddcc2..9850dd44444 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure
+++ b/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@
 --disable-libssh \
 --disable-libudev \
 --disable-libusb \
---disable-libxml2 \
 --disable-linux-aio \
 --disable-linux-io-uring \
 --disable-linux-user \
diff --git a/scripts/coverity-scan/coverity-scan.docker b/scripts/coverity-scan/coverity-scan.docker
index ecff6ac5b4b..6f60a52d231 100644
--- a/scripts/coverity-scan/coverity-scan.docker
+++ b/scripts/coverity-scan/coverity-scan.docker
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ ENV PACKAGES \
     libubsan \
     libudev-devel \
     libusbx-devel \
-    libxml2-devel \
     libzstd-devel \
     llvm \
     lzo-devel \
diff --git a/scripts/coverity-scan/run-coverity-scan b/scripts/coverity-scan/run-coverity-scan
index 6d443250a9b..181bdcb2638 100755
--- a/scripts/coverity-scan/run-coverity-scan
+++ b/scripts/coverity-scan/run-coverity-scan
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ echo "Configuring..."
     --enable-libiscsi --enable-libnfs --enable-seccomp \
     --enable-tpm --enable-libssh --enable-lzo --enable-snappy --enable-bzip2 \
     --enable-numa --enable-rdma --enable-smartcard --enable-virglrenderer \
-    --enable-mpath --enable-libxml2 --enable-glusterfs \
+    --enable-mpath --enable-glusterfs \
     --enable-virtfs --enable-zstd
 
 echo "Running cov-build..."
