diff --git a/docker/gitian-host/gitian.patch b/docker/gitian-host/gitian.patch
index 07a05b0..bca56ba 100644
--- a/docker/gitian-host/gitian.patch
+++ b/docker/gitian-host/gitian.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 diff --git a/bin/make-base-vm b/bin/make-base-vm
-index c1920f3..db311dd 100755
+index c1920f3..a5935fb 100755
 --- a/bin/make-base-vm
 +++ b/bin/make-base-vm
 @@ -106,19 +106,6 @@ fi
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ index c1920f3..db311dd 100755
  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-m
++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
 -
diff --git a/docker/scripts/create-gitian-host.sh b/docker/scripts/create-gitian-host.sh
index 2c9deda..c4d377e 100755
--- a/docker/scripts/create-gitian-host.sh
+++ b/docker/scripts/create-gitian-host.sh
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ wait_for_ssh $IP 10 && \
 ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no debian@$IP ./build-base-vms.sh && \
 docker kill $CID && \
 docker wait $CID && \
-sleep 3 && \
 docker commit $CID gdm85/gitian-host-vms && \
+sleep 3 && \
 docker rm $CID && \
 echo "Gitian host images created successfully!" && \
 echo "You can now spawn containers with spawn-gitian-host.sh"