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docs: Improve reasons for using libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance.

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@@ -15,11 +15,33 @@ libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance - Make a "fixed appliance" for libguestfs
libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance lets you make a pre-built binary
appliance for libguestfs.
B<Note that ordinary users should not need to run this tool>. The
only reason to use it is if you want to make a self-contained
libguestfs appliance that can be copied to another machine or platform
that doesn't support L<supermin(8)>. To understand why you might
need to use this tool, read the section L</FIXED APPLIANCE> below.
B<Note that ordinary users should not need to run this tool>.
Some reasons why you I<might> want to use this include:
=over 4
=item *
You want to make a self-contained libguestfs appliance that can be
copied to another machine or platform that doesn't support
L<supermin(8)>.
=item *
You have multiple users on the same machine and want to avoid the
storage duplication and start-up overhead of having multiple cached
copies of the appliance.
=item *
You want to have very predictable performance from libguestfs (see
L<guestfs-performance(1)>).
=back
For deeper understanding of why you might need this tool, read the
section L</FIXED APPLIANCE> below.
Instead of running this tool, you can download fixed appliances from
L<http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/>. These