diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go
index 3ba9435e64..e088a1b772 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ func (c *Container) stop(ctx context.Context, force bool) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	shareDir := filepath.Join(kataHostSharedDir(), c.sandbox.id, c.id)
+	shareDir := filepath.Join(getMountPath(c.sandbox.id), c.id)
 	if err := syscall.Rmdir(shareDir); err != nil {
 		c.Logger().WithError(err).WithField("share-dir", shareDir).Warn("Could not remove container share dir")
 	}