diff --git a/src/libguestfish.sh b/src/libguestfish.sh
index 4691eda6b9..d16d39b3bf 100755
--- a/src/libguestfish.sh
+++ b/src/libguestfish.sh
@@ -42,10 +42,16 @@ coreos_gf_run_mount() {
     local boot
     boot=$(coreos_gf findfs-label boot)
     coreos_gf mount "${boot}" /boot
+    var=$(coreos_gf -findfs-label var || true)
 
     # Export these variables for further use
     stateroot=/ostree/deploy/$(coreos_gf ls /ostree/deploy)
     deploydir="${stateroot}"/deploy/$(coreos_gf ls "${stateroot}"/deploy | grep -v \.origin)
+    if [ -n "${var}" ]; then
+        # Since it doesn't look like libguestfs supports bind mounts, and other
+        # code processes the stateroot directory, let's mount it there.
+        coreos_gf mount "${var}" "${stateroot}"/var
+    fi
     export stateroot deploydir
 }