diff --git a/src/vbox/vbox_snapshot_conf.c b/src/vbox/vbox_snapshot_conf.c
index 49096650af10fe9bcde2ff57da4d8d82da6124da..9c784103020a9e41608f03706b1fb08b8f5c9c90 100644
--- a/src/vbox/vbox_snapshot_conf.c
+++ b/src/vbox/vbox_snapshot_conf.c
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ virVBoxSnapshotConfGetRODisksPathsFromLibvirtXML(const char *filePath,
 {
     int result = -1;
     size_t i = 0;
-    char **ret;
+    char **ret = NULL;
     xmlDocPtr xml = NULL;
     xmlXPathContextPtr xPathContext = NULL;
     xmlNodePtr *nodes = NULL;