diff --git a/prepare-vms/scripts/postprep.rc b/prepare-vms/scripts/postprep.rc
index ff15715e..3f05dfe3 100755
--- a/prepare-vms/scripts/postprep.rc
+++ b/prepare-vms/scripts/postprep.rc
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import yaml
 config = yaml.load(open("/tmp/settings.yaml"))
 COMPOSE_VERSION = config["compose_version"]
 MACHINE_VERSION = config["machine_version"]
-SWARM_VERSION = config["swarm_version"]
 CLUSTER_SIZE = config["clustersize"]
 ENGINE_VERSION = config["engine_version"]
 
@@ -149,10 +148,6 @@ system("sudo apt-get -qy install python-setuptools pssh apache2-utils httping ht
 ### (If we don't do this, Docker will not be responsive during the next step.)
 system("while ! sudo -u docker docker version ; do sleep 2; done")
 
-### Install Swarm
-#system("docker pull swarm:{}".format(SWARM_VERSION))
-#system("docker tag -f swarm:{} swarm".format(SWARM_VERSION))
-
 ### BEGIN CLUSTERING ###
 
 addresses = list(l.strip() for l in sys.stdin)