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-title: vmdb2 manual
+title: Building Debian system images with vmdb2
+author: Lars Wirzenius
+date: work-in-progress
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 Introduction
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 compatible with the old one; that would've required keeping the
 problems, as well.
 
+Why vmdb2 given vmdebootstrap already existed
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Installation
+`vmdebootstrap` was the first attempt by Lars Wirzenius to write a
+tool to build system images. It turned out to not be well designed.
+Specifically, it was not easily extensible to be as flexible as a tool
+of this sort should be.
+
+Why vmdb2 given other tools already exist
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+Lars likes to write tools for himself and had some free time. He
+sometimes prefers to write his own tools rather than spend time and
+energy evaluating and improving existing tools. He admits this is a
+character flaw.
+
+Also, he felt ashamed of how messy `vmdebootstrap` turned out to be.
+
+If nobody else likes `vmdb2`, that just means Lars had some fun on his
+own.
+
+
+Installation
+=============================================================================
+
 You can get vmdb2 by getting the source code from git:
 
     git clone git://git.liw.fi/vmdb2