diff --git a/src/rm/RequestManagerVirtualMachine.cc b/src/rm/RequestManagerVirtualMachine.cc
index a7ecc1dc0d..08aaed978b 100644
--- a/src/rm/RequestManagerVirtualMachine.cc
+++ b/src/rm/RequestManagerVirtualMachine.cc
@@ -763,7 +763,6 @@ void VirtualMachineDeploy::request_execute(xmlrpc_c::paramList const& paramList,
     PoolObjectAuth * auth_ds_perms;
 
     string tm_mad;
-    string ln_target, clone_target;
     string error_str;
 
     bool auth = false;