diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index e688981c3e2753a4b77885372c90fcacb1bf2e6d..1caecb96b63ad647fb357fe6b71d14c8fe0c2c4a 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -2876,7 +2876,6 @@ virStorageFileBackendRegister;
 
 
 # util/virstring.h
-virArgvToString;
 virAsprintfInternal;
 virSkipSpaces;
 virSkipSpacesAndBackslash;
diff --git a/src/util/virstring.c b/src/util/virstring.c
index 15f367af7c18962fcbb20085ca96530030d61bc8..31e71d7535a5b447d65c7a3f79d95f1934c87b27 100644
--- a/src/util/virstring.c
+++ b/src/util/virstring.c
@@ -917,33 +917,6 @@ virStringIsEmpty(const char *str)
     return str[0] == '\0';
 }
 
-char *
-virArgvToString(const char *const *argv)
-{
-    int len;
-    size_t i;
-    char *ret, *p;
-
-    for (len = 1, i = 0; argv[i]; i++)
-        len += strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
-
-    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(ret, len) < 0)
-        return NULL;
-    p = ret;
-
-    for (i = 0; argv[i]; i++) {
-        if (i != 0)
-            *(p++) = ' ';
-
-        strcpy(p, argv[i]);
-        p += strlen(argv[i]);
-    }
-
-    *p = '\0';
-
-    return ret;
-}
-
 /**
  * virStrdup:
  * @dest: where to store duplicated string
diff --git a/src/util/virstring.h b/src/util/virstring.h
index 726e02b98cc07434fc181186ead1e15bf7f39dd4..14948fdf1cb09fb195bf4e36ee282a38098b3879 100644
--- a/src/util/virstring.h
+++ b/src/util/virstring.h
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ char *virStringListGetFirstWithPrefix(char **strings,
                                       const char *prefix)
     ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2);
 
-char *virArgvToString(const char *const *argv);
-
 int virStrToLong_i(char const *s,
                    char **end_ptr,
                    int base,