diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
index 7f61018f2a3f..2303a8c206fe 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,6 @@ int vhost_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev)
                              hdev->vqs + i,
                              hdev->vq_index + i);
     }
-    i = hdev->nvqs;
 
 fail_mem:
 fail_features: