Comment 13 for bug 228744

I can confirm that the version of ubuntu-vm-builder in hardy-updates, 0.4-0ubuntu0.1, doesn't handle the situation where /tmp is mounted nodev,nosuid, and that the version in hardy-proposed, 0.4-0ubuntu0.4, with the new "--in-place" option is able to build a vm with /tmp so mounted.

(As an aside, TMPDIR as set in the host is passed along to the guest during the build, so if the guest's filesystem doesn't have the path that TMPDIR is set to in the host (e.g. "/data" or "$HOME/tmp/") then bits of the installation fail miserably. I know ubuntu-vm-builder has been replaced with a python version, but it might be worth checking if this issue still lurks there.)