diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index 41ee1dd4139..b5af7841ca7 100755
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -2651,13 +2651,14 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements
                     if (disk.getDeviceType() == DiskDef.deviceType.CDROM
                             && disk.getDiskPath() != null) {
                         cleanupDisk(conn, disk);
-                    } else if (disk.getDiskPath() != null 
+                    } /* The clean up of patch disks should probably be done in expunge
+                      else if (disk.getDiskPath() != null 
                             && disk.getDiskPath().contains(vmName + "-patchdisk") 
                             && vmName.matches("^[rsv]-\\d+-VM$")) {
                         if (!_storagePoolMgr.deleteVbdByPath(disk.getDiskPath())) {
                             s_logger.warn("failed to delete patch disk " + disk.getDiskPath());
                         }
-                    }
+                    }*/
                 }
                 for (InterfaceDef iface: ifaces) {
                     _vifDriver.unplug(iface);