diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 602bc629..2cb9c2fa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 rpm/
 pkgs/
+qubes.egg-info/
 .coverage
 .coverage.*
 htmlcov/
diff --git a/run-tests b/run-tests
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..e6fc8a03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run-tests
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+: "${PYTHON:=python}"
+: "${TESTPYTHONPATH:=test-packages}"
+
+PYTHONPATH="${TESTPYTHONPATH}:${PYTHONPATH}"
+export PYTHONPATH
+
+"${PYTHON}" setup.py egg_info --egg-base "${TESTPYTHONPATH}"
+"${PYTHON}" -m qubes.tests.run
diff --git a/site-packages-qmemman/qubes b/site-packages-qmemman/qubes
deleted file mode 120000
index e86ad82b..00000000
--- a/site-packages-qmemman/qubes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../qmemman
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/site-packages/qubes b/site-packages/qubes
deleted file mode 120000
index c73d9e17..00000000
--- a/site-packages/qubes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../core
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test-packages/.gitignore b/test-packages/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9edb3e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-packages/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+qubes.egg-info/
diff --git a/test-packages/libvirt.py b/test-packages/libvirt.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c850656
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-packages/libvirt.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+"""mock libvirt module
+
+WARNING: you did not import real libvirt module
+
+This is needed, because we don't currently ship libvirt-python for templates.
+The module contains libvirtError and openReadOnly() function, which
+does nothing and raises the aforementioned exception. More functions can be
+added as needed.
+"""
+
+class libvirtError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+def openReadOnly(*args, **kwargs):
+    raise libvirtError('mock module, always raises')