diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
index 07fd4b182c1..ffd44230d3f 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
@@ -707,7 +707,6 @@ public class LibvirtStorageAdaptor implements StorageAdaptor {
 
     private KVMPhysicalDisk createPhysicalDiskOnRBD(String name, KVMStoragePool pool,
                                                PhysicalDiskFormat format, Storage.ProvisioningType provisioningType, long size) {
-        LibvirtStoragePool libvirtPool = (LibvirtStoragePool) pool;
         String volPath = null;
 
         /**