diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 58eafaf68d0..48aa29b69e3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -96,3 +96,5 @@ tools/appliance/box/
 .pydevproject
 systemvm/.pydevproject
 test/.pydevprojec
+plugins/hypervisors/kvm/.pydevproject
+scripts/.pydevproject
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/.pydevproject b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/.pydevproject
deleted file mode 100644
index d4a984a3909..00000000000
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/.pydevproject
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
-<!--
-Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-distributed with this work for additional information
-regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-specific language governing permissions and limitations
-under the License.
--->
-<?eclipse-pydev version="1.0"?>
-
-<pydev_project>
-<pydev_property name="org.python.pydev.PYTHON_PROJECT_INTERPRETER">Default</pydev_property>
-<pydev_property name="org.python.pydev.PYTHON_PROJECT_VERSION">python 2.7</pydev_property>
-</pydev_project>
diff --git a/scripts/.pydevproject b/scripts/.pydevproject
deleted file mode 100644
index 43efe469ed2..00000000000
--- a/scripts/.pydevproject
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
-<!--
-Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-distributed with this work for additional information
-regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-specific language governing permissions and limitations
-under the License.
--->
-<?eclipse-pydev version="1.0"?>
-
-<pydev_project>
-<pydev_property name="org.python.pydev.PYTHON_PROJECT_INTERPRETER">Default</pydev_property>
-<pydev_property name="org.python.pydev.PYTHON_PROJECT_VERSION">python 2.6</pydev_property>
-<pydev_pathproperty name="org.python.pydev.PROJECT_SOURCE_PATH">
-<path>/scripts</path>
-</pydev_pathproperty>
-</pydev_project>