diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e68a1108319..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  stdenv,
-  lld,
-}:
-
-let
-  arch = stdenv.hostPlatform.qemuArch;
-
-  target = ./. + "/${arch}-unknown-none.json";
-
-in
-
-let
-  cross = import ../../../.. {
-    system = stdenv.hostPlatform.system;
-    crossSystem = lib.systems.examples."${arch}-embedded" // {
-      rust.rustcTarget = "${arch}-unknown-none";
-      rust.platform =
-        assert lib.assertMsg (builtins.pathExists target) "Target spec not found";
-        lib.importJSON target;
-    };
-  };
-
-  inherit (cross) rustPlatform;
-
-in
-
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
-  pname = "rust-hypervisor-firmware";
-  version = "0.5.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "cloud-hypervisor";
-    repo = "rust-hypervisor-firmware";
-    tag = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-iLYmPBJH7I6EJ8VTUbR0+lZaebvbZlRv2KglbjKX76Q=";
-  };
-
-  cargoHash = "sha256-iqsU4t8Zz9UTtAu+a6kqwnPZ6qdGAriQ7hcU58KDQ8M=";
-
-  # lld: error: unknown argument '-Wl,--undefined=AUDITABLE_VERSION_INFO'
-  # https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/rust-hypervisor-firmware/issues/249
-  auditable = false;
-
-  env = {
-    RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP = 1;
-    RUSTFLAGS = "-C linker=lld -C linker-flavor=ld.lld";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    lld
-  ];
-
-  # Tests don't work for `no_std`. See https://os.phil-opp.com/testing/
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/rust-hypervisor-firmware";
-    description = "Simple firmware that is designed to be launched from anything that supports loading ELF binaries and running them with the PVH booting standard";
-    license = with lib.licenses; [ asl20 ];
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ astro ];
-    platforms = [ "x86_64-none" ];
-    mainProgram = "hypervisor-fw";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware/x86_64-unknown-none.json b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware/x86_64-unknown-none.json
deleted file mode 100644
index dab5ec84bf1a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware/x86_64-unknown-none.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "llvm-target": "x86_64-unknown-none",
-  "data-layout": "e-m:e-p270:32:32-p271:32:32-p272:64:64-i64:64-i128:128-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128",
-  "arch": "x86_64",
-  "target-endian": "little",
-  "target-pointer-width": "64",
-  "target-c-int-width": "32",
-  "os": "none",
-  "executables": true,
-  "linker": "rust-lld",
-  "linker-flavor": "ld.lld",
-  "panic-strategy": "abort",
-  "disable-redzone": true,
-  "features": "-mmx,-sse,+soft-float",
-  "code-model": "small",
-  "relocation-model": "pic",
-  "pre-link-args": {
-    "ld.lld": ["--script=x86_64-unknown-none.ld"]
-  }
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 1e258da9620f..546ecaff6c97 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ mapAliases {
   rucksack = throw "rucksack was removed due to numerous vulnerabilities in freeimage"; # Added 2025-10-23
   runCommandNoCC = warnAlias "'runCommandNoCC' has been renamed to/replaced by 'runCommand'" runCommand; # Converted to warning 2025-10-28
   runCommandNoCCLocal = warnAlias "'runCommandNoCCLocal' has been renamed to/replaced by 'runCommandLocal'" runCommandLocal; # Converted to warning 2025-10-28
+  rust-hypervisor-firmware = throw "rust-hypevisor-firmware was removed, as it is no longer needed by Cloud Hypervisor and was broken"; # Added 2026-02-19
   rust-synapse-state-compress = throw "'rust-synapse-state-compress' has been renamed to/replaced by 'rust-synapse-compress-state'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   rustc-wasm32 = throw "'rustc-wasm32' has been renamed to/replaced by 'rustc'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   rustic-rs = throw "'rustic-rs' has been renamed to/replaced by 'rustic'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c425e76621f7..ed292aa4350a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8477,8 +8477,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   qboot = pkgsi686Linux.callPackage ../applications/virtualization/qboot { };
 
-  rust-hypervisor-firmware = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/rust-hypervisor-firmware { };
-
   OVMF = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/OVMF {
     inherit (python3Packages) pexpect;
   };