diff --git a/stackrc b/stackrc
index 51bcbfeef4..aebeeeaec1 100644
--- a/stackrc
+++ b/stackrc
@@ -630,9 +630,6 @@ if [[ "$DOWNLOAD_DEFAULT_IMAGES" == "True" ]]; then
         IMAGE_URLS+=","
     fi
     case "$VIRT_DRIVER" in
-        openvz)
-            DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME=${DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME:-ubuntu-12.04-x86_64}
-            IMAGE_URLS+="http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-12.04-x86_64.tar.gz";;
         libvirt)
             case "$LIBVIRT_TYPE" in
                 lxc) # the cirros root disk in the uec tarball is empty, so it will not work for lxc