diff --git a/release/tools/vmimage.subr b/release/tools/vmimage.subr
--- a/release/tools/vmimage.subr
+++ b/release/tools/vmimage.subr
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
 	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/var/db/etcupdate
 	etcupdate extract -B \
 		-M "TARGET=${TARGET} TARGET_ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH}" \
-		-s ${WORLDDIR} -d ${DESTDIR}/var/db/etcupdate
+		-s ${WORLDDIR} -d ${DESTDIR}/var/db/etcupdate \
+		-L /dev/null
 
 	echo '# Custom /etc/fstab for FreeBSD VM images' \
 		> ${DESTDIR}/etc/fstab