diff --git a/bin/make-base-vm b/bin/make-base-vm
index c1920f3..a5935fb 100755
--- a/bin/make-base-vm
+++ b/bin/make-base-vm
@@ -106,19 +106,6 @@ fi
 
 libexec/config-bootstrap-fixup
 rm -rf $OUT
-sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --rootsize 10240 --arch=$ARCH --suite=$SUITE --addpkg=$addpkg --removepkg=$removepkg --ssh-key=var/id_dsa.pub --ssh-user-key=var/id_dsa.pub --mirror=$MIRROR --security-mirror=$SECURITY_MIRROR --dest=$OUT --flavour=$FLAVOUR --firstboot=`pwd`/target-bin/bootstrap-fixup
+env -i LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --rootsize 10240 --arch=$ARCH --suite=$SUITE --addpkg=$addpkg --removepkg=$removepkg --ssh-key=var/id_dsa.pub --ssh-user-key=var/id_dsa.pub --mirror=$MIRROR --security-mirror=$SECURITY_MIRROR --dest=$OUT --flavour=$FLAVOUR --firstboot=`pwd`/target-bin/bootstrap-fixup
 mv $OUT/*.qcow2 $OUT.qcow2
 rm -rf $OUT
-
-if [ $LXC = "1" ]; then
-    #sudo debootstrap --include=$addpkg --arch=$ARCH $SUITE $OUT-root $MIRROR
-    echo Extracting partition for lxc
-    qemu-img convert $OUT.qcow2 $OUT.raw
-    loop=`sudo kpartx -av $OUT.raw|sed -n '/loop.p1/{s/.*loop\(.\)p1.*/\1/;p}'`
-    sudo cp --sparse=always /dev/mapper/loop${loop}p1 $OUT
-    sudo chown $USER $OUT
-    sudo kpartx -d /dev/loop$loop
-    rm -f $OUT.raw
-    # bootstrap-fixup is done in libexec/make-clean-vm
-fi
-