diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e8c907ead48ee309423b7d3b11439bec2010756c..ba4d351d16077fec871752ae5c08112f4daa526b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 /mkinstalldirs
 /po/
 /proxy/
+/src/libvirt_iohelper
 /tests/*.log
 /tests/cputest
 /tests/nwfilterxml2xmltest