diff --git a/zun/compute/manager.py b/zun/compute/manager.py
index bae8b4d2e..d4d2557c8 100755
--- a/zun/compute/manager.py
+++ b/zun/compute/manager.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class Manager(object):
                 context, repo, tag, sandbox_image_pull_policy,
                 sandbox_image_driver)
             if not image_loaded:
-                self.driver.load_image(sandbox_image, image['path'])
+                self.driver.load_image(image['path'])
             sandbox_id = self.driver.create_sandbox(context, container,
                                                     image=sandbox_image)
         except Exception as e:
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class Manager(object):
             image, image_loaded = image_driver.pull_image(
                 context, repo, tag, image_pull_policy, image_driver_name)
             if not image_loaded:
-                self.driver.load_image(container.image, image['path'])
+                self.driver.load_image(image['path'])
         except exception.ImageNotFound as e:
             with excutils.save_and_reraise_exception(reraise=reraise):
                 LOG.error(six.text_type(e))
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ class Manager(object):
             pulled_image, image_loaded = image_driver.pull_image(
                 context, image.repo, image.tag)
             if not image_loaded:
-                self.driver.load_image(repo_tag, pulled_image['path'])
+                self.driver.load_image(pulled_image['path'])
             image_dict = self.driver.inspect_image(repo_tag)
             image.image_id = image_dict['Id']
             image.size = image_dict['Size']
diff --git a/zun/container/docker/driver.py b/zun/container/docker/driver.py
index 555004dab..6583904b0 100644
--- a/zun/container/docker/driver.py
+++ b/zun/container/docker/driver.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class DockerDriver(driver.ContainerDriver):
     def __init__(self):
         super(DockerDriver, self).__init__()
 
-    def load_image(self, image, image_path=None):
+    def load_image(self, image_path=None):
         with docker_utils.docker_client() as docker:
             if image_path:
                 with open(image_path, 'rb') as fd:
diff --git a/zun/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_manager.py b/zun/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_manager.py
index f18b23441..1b6794590 100755
--- a/zun/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_manager.py
+++ b/zun/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_manager.py
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ class TestManager(base.TestCase):
         mock_pull.assert_any_call(self.context, image.repo, image.tag)
         mock_save.assert_called_once()
         mock_inspect.assert_called_once_with(repo_tag)
-        mock_load.assert_called_once_with(repo_tag, ret['path'])
+        mock_load.assert_called_once_with(ret['path'])
 
     @mock.patch.object(fake_driver, 'execute_resize')
     def test_container_exec_resize(self, mock_resize):
diff --git a/zun/tests/unit/container/docker/test_docker_driver.py b/zun/tests/unit/container/docker/test_docker_driver.py
index 3c12663b5..ee0a19921 100644
--- a/zun/tests/unit/container/docker/test_docker_driver.py
+++ b/zun/tests/unit/container/docker/test_docker_driver.py
@@ -65,8 +65,7 @@ class TestDockerDriver(base.DriverTestCase):
         self.mock_docker.load_image = mock.Mock()
         mock_open_file = mock.mock_open()
         with mock.patch('zun.container.docker.driver.open', mock_open_file):
-            mock_image = mock.MagicMock()
-            self.driver.load_image(mock_image, 'test')
+            self.driver.load_image('test')
             self.mock_docker.load_image.assert_called_once_with(
                 mock_open_file.return_value)