diff --git a/appliance.patch b/appliance.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..313664d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appliance.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Index: libguestfs-1.32.4/appliance/init
+===================================================================
+--- libguestfs-1.32.4.orig/appliance/init
++++ libguestfs-1.32.4/appliance/init
+@@ -182,7 +182,9 @@ else
+   echo
+   echo "Note: The contents of / are the rescue appliance."
+   echo "You have to mount the guest's partitions under /sysroot"
+-  echo "before you can examine them."
++  echo "before you can examine them. A helper script for that exists:"
++  echo "mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh /dev/sda2"
++
+   echo
+   bash -i
+   echo
diff --git a/libguestfs.changes b/libguestfs.changes
index bd9a67e..93d3f0a 100644
--- a/libguestfs.changes
+++ b/libguestfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul 20 19:47:22 UTC 2016 - cbosdonnat@suse.com
+
+- appliance fixes (fate#316274):
+  * re-add helper script mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh for virt-rescue
+    appliance.patch
+  * make guestfs-data a requirement of guestfs-tools
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jul 20 08:32:21 UTC 2016 - cbosdonnat@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 7dd9806..8f40d16 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -199,9 +199,11 @@ Summary:        Compatibility package for guestfs-tools
 License:        GPL-2.0
 Group:          System/Filesystems
 Patch0:         0000-hotfix.patch
+Patch100:       appliance.patch
 
 Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        libguestfs.rpmlintrc
+Source100:      mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh
 Source789653:   Pod-Simple-3.23.tar.xz
 #
 Source10001:    libguestfs.test.simple.run-libugestfs-test-tool.sh
@@ -256,7 +258,7 @@ Requires:       perl(Win::Hivex)
 Requires:       perl(Win::Hivex::Regedit)
 %endif
 %endif
-Recommends:     guestfs-data
+Requires:       guestfs-data
 Conflicts:      guestfs-data < %{version}
 Conflicts:      libguestfs0 < %{version}
 
@@ -558,6 +560,7 @@ It can import a variety of guest operating systems from libvirt-managed hosts.
 : _ignore_exclusive_arch '%{?_ignore_exclusive_arch}'
 %setup -q -a 789653
 %patch0 -p1
+%patch100 -p1
 
 %build
 bison --version
@@ -681,6 +684,14 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp
 %endif
 %endif
 
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp/usr/bin
+cp %{S:100} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp/usr/bin
+chmod a+x $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp/usr/bin/*
+pushd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp
+tar czf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-scripts.tar.gz usr
+popd
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp
+
 %if %{with p2v}
 # Remove the kickstart files from p2v package
 rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/virt-p2v/p2v.ks.in
diff --git a/mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh b/mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98395cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Usage: $0 /dev/sda5
+rootfs=$1
+mnt=/sysroot
+mounts=
+
+if test -b "${rootfs}"
+then
+
+    mkdir -v -p "${mnt}"
+
+    if mount -v "${rootfs}" "${mnt}"
+    then
+
+        for i in dev dev/pts proc sys selinux
+        do
+            if test -d /${i} && test -d "${mnt}/${i}" && test "`stat -c %D /`" != "`stat -c %D ${i}`"
+            then
+                mount -v --bind /${i} "${mnt}/${i}"
+            fi
+        done
+
+        chroot "${mnt}" su -
+
+        while read b m rest
+        do
+            case "${m}" in
+                ${mnt}*)
+                    mounts="${m} ${mounts}"
+                ;;
+            esac
+        done <<-EOF
+`
+cat < /proc/mounts
+`
+EOF
+
+        for i in ${mounts}
+        do
+            umount -v "${i}"
+        done
+
+    fi
+
+fi