diff --git a/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-create b/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-create
index a16f19ba..3a05cdbf 100755
--- a/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-create
+++ b/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-create
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ def main():
         vm = qvm_collection.add_new_appvm(vmname, template_vm, label = label)
     try:
         vm.create_on_disk(verbose=options.verbose)
-        vm.add_to_xen_storage()
 
     except (IOError, OSError) as err:
         print "ERROR: {0}".format(err)