diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c59d9109bad2..2f61af20376a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ module = [
     "debconf",
     "httplib",
     "jsonpatch",
-    "netifaces",
     "paramiko.*",
     "pip.*",
     "pycloudlib.*",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index edec46a7fddc..eabd7a22cd87 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,12 +29,3 @@ jsonpatch
 
 # For validating cloud-config sections per schema definitions
 jsonschema
-
-# Used by DataSourceVMware to inspect the host's network configuration during
-# the "setup()" function.
-#
-# This allows a host that uses DHCP to bring up the network during BootLocal
-# and still participate in instance-data by gathering the network in detail at
-# runtime and merge that information into the metadata and repersist that to
-# disk.
-netifaces>=0.10.4
diff --git a/tests/unittests/sources/test_vmware.py b/tests/unittests/sources/test_vmware.py
index 6cedc716256e..6f73825f4f00 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/sources/test_vmware.py
+++ b/tests/unittests/sources/test_vmware.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def common_patches():
         ),
         mock.patch(
             "cloudinit.netinfo.netdev_info",
-            return_value=[],
+            return_value={},
         ),
         mock.patch(
             "cloudinit.sources.DataSourceVMware.getfqdn",
diff --git a/tools/build-on-netbsd b/tools/build-on-netbsd
index 0d4eb58be4d2..b743d591b6e2 100755
--- a/tools/build-on-netbsd
+++ b/tools/build-on-netbsd
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ pkgs="
    ${py_prefix}-oauthlib
    ${py_prefix}-requests
    ${py_prefix}-setuptools
-   ${py_prefix}-netifaces
    ${py_prefix}-yaml
    ${py_prefix}-jsonschema
    sudo
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5f01a9a8f6dd..403b7d5765b3 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -194,7 +194,6 @@ deps =
     requests==2.18.4
     jsonpatch==1.16
     jsonschema==2.6.0
-    netifaces==0.10.4
     # test-requirements
     pytest==3.3.2
     pytest-cov==2.5.1