diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2d364dcb250039c2076a74313ffbb5c1351beb08..d5a6cf52b11e87980c102fb8105db4fdb5765608 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 /docs/libvirt-refs.xml
 /docs/search.php
 /docs/todo.html.in
-/examples/domain-events/events-c/event-test
+/examples/object-events/event-test
 /examples/dominfo/info1
 /examples/hellolibvirt/hellolibvirt
 /examples/openauth/openauth
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 2cbf71ad99c492f6a03b368a7ca4538c8755d2c9..88c70734b904f38cc44b0ccb36b71005062be70a 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ LCOV = lcov
 GENHTML = genhtml
 
 SUBDIRS = . gnulib/lib include src daemon tools docs gnulib/tests \
-  tests po examples/domain-events/events-c examples/hellolibvirt \
+  tests po examples/object-events examples/hellolibvirt \
   examples/dominfo examples/apparmor examples/xml/nwfilter \
   examples/openauth examples/systemtap
 
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index fe760a9798e5aa36b9e931503f66b571c480b11d..9a0665061679406d75bbd02b57e2623708144652 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY = \
 exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_access_xok = ^src/util/virutil\.c$$
 
 exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_asprintf = \
-  ^(bootstrap.conf$$|src/util/virstring\.[ch]$$|examples/domain-events/events-c/event-test\.c$$|tests/vircgroupmock\.c$$)
+  ^(bootstrap.conf$$|src/util/virstring\.[ch]$$|tests/vircgroupmock\.c$$)
 
 exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_strdup = \
   ^(docs/|examples/|src/util/virstring\.c|tests/virnetserverclientmock.c$$)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bb9234957f9fc1663c3fb33dd920035f1e14270a..10ce184cf41a60ff5c543b6a6e19be8d9bcb86bf 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2554,7 +2554,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([\
         tools/Makefile \
         tests/Makefile \
         examples/apparmor/Makefile \
-        examples/domain-events/events-c/Makefile \
+        examples/object-events/Makefile \
         examples/dominfo/Makefile \
         examples/openauth/Makefile \
         examples/hellolibvirt/Makefile \
diff --git a/examples/domain-events/events-c/Makefile.am b/examples/object-events/Makefile.am
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/domain-events/events-c/Makefile.am
rename to examples/object-events/Makefile.am
diff --git a/examples/domain-events/events-c/event-test.c b/examples/object-events/event-test.c
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/domain-events/events-c/event-test.c
rename to examples/object-events/event-test.c
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index f615c62b0660ae6fbbc04324702ea854780fc405..849ec80dbace2d470014eaf49994a072c8a3753e 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 # on RHEL 5, thus we need to expand it here.
 make install DESTDIR=%{?buildroot} SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR=%{_unitdir}
 
-for i in domain-events/events-c dominfo hellolibvirt openauth xml/nwfilter systemtap
+for i in object-events dominfo hellolibvirt openauth xml/nwfilter systemtap
 do
   (cd examples/$i ; make clean ; rm -rf .deps .libs Makefile Makefile.in)
 done
@@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@ exit 0
 %doc docs/*.html docs/html docs/*.gif
 %doc docs/libvirt-api.xml
 %doc examples/hellolibvirt
-%doc examples/domain-events/events-c
+%doc examples/object-events
 %doc examples/dominfo
 %doc examples/openauth
 %doc examples/xml