diff --git a/.cci.jenkinsfile b/.cci.jenkinsfile
index 1f0068c141..0eba0e9168 100644
--- a/.cci.jenkinsfile
+++ b/.cci.jenkinsfile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pod(image: imageName + ":latest", kvm: true, cpu: "${cpuCount}", memory: "${memo
     kola(cosaDir: "/srv", addExtTests: ["${env.WORKSPACE}/ci/run-kola-self-tests"])
 
     stage("Build Metal") {
-        cosaParallelCmds(cosaDir: "/srv", commands: ["metal", "metal4k"])
+        utils.cosaCmd(cosaDir: "/srv", args: "osbuild metal metal4k")
     }
 
     stage("Build Live Images") {
diff --git a/src/cmd-osbuild b/src/cmd-osbuild
index aa2b43426a..572ffa79ca 100755
--- a/src/cmd-osbuild
+++ b/src/cmd-osbuild
@@ -347,7 +347,6 @@ main() {
     done
 
     tobuild=()
-    building_qemu=0
     for platform in "${platforms[@]}"; do
         # check if the image already exists in the meta.json
         meta_img=$(meta_key "images.${platform}.path")
@@ -357,7 +356,6 @@ main() {
         else
             tobuild+=("${platform}")
             echo "Will build $platform"
-            [ "${platform}" == 'qemu' ] && building_qemu=1
         fi
     done
     if [ ${#tobuild[@]} == "0" ]; then
@@ -366,17 +364,10 @@ main() {
     fi
     platforms=("${tobuild[@]}")
 
-    # Run OSBuild now to build the platforms that were requested. In the jenkins
-    # pipelines we build the qemu image first and that operation will do a lot of
-    # the same work required for later artifacts (metal, metal4k, etc) so we want
-    # the cached output from that run to persist. For now, later artifacts get built
-    # in parallel, so we need to be able to access the cache by multiple processes,
-    # so for those we'll set `snapshot=on` so that each will get their own disk image.
-    # This is OK because we don't checkpoint (cache) any of those stages.
-    [ "${building_qemu}" == '1' ] && snapshot="off" || snapshot="on"
+    # Run OSBuild now to build the platforms that were requested.
     runvm_osbuild_config_json="$(generate_runvm_osbuild_config)"
     outdir=$(mktemp -p "${tmp_builddir}" -d)
-    runvm_with_cache_snapshot "$snapshot" -- /usr/lib/coreos-assembler/runvm-osbuild                    \
+    runvm_with_cache -- /usr/lib/coreos-assembler/runvm-osbuild                                         \
                 --config "${runvm_osbuild_config_json}"                                                 \
                 --mpp "/usr/lib/coreos-assembler/osbuild-manifests/coreos.osbuild.${basearch}.mpp.yaml" \
                 --outdir "${outdir}"                                                                    \
diff --git a/src/cmd-supermin-run b/src/cmd-supermin-run
index dfcf2e0493..1ecde4da76 100755
--- a/src/cmd-supermin-run
+++ b/src/cmd-supermin-run
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ dn=$(dirname "$0")
 . "${dn}"/cmdlib.sh
 
 print_help() {
-    echo "Usage: cosa supermin-run [--cache|--snapshot] COMMAND [ARG...]" >&2
+    echo "Usage: cosa supermin-run [--cache] COMMAND [ARG...]" >&2
 }
 
 if [ $# = 0 ]; then
@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@ case "$1" in
         set -- runvm_with_cache -- "$@"
         need_cache_dir=1
         ;;
-    --snapshot)
-        shift
-        set -- runvm_with_cache_snapshot on -- "$@"
-        need_cache_dir=1
-        ;;
     --*)
         echo "unrecognized option: $1"
         print_help
diff --git a/src/cmdlib.sh b/src/cmdlib.sh
index 070d4d8ec8..9e84366f6c 100755
--- a/src/cmdlib.sh
+++ b/src/cmdlib.sh
@@ -574,38 +574,8 @@ runcompose_tree() {
     fi
 }
 
-runcompose_extensions() {
-    local outputdir=$1; shift
-    local workdir=${workdir:-$(pwd)}
-    local repo=${tmprepo:-${workdir}/tmp/repo}
-
-    rm -f "${changed_stamp}"
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-    set - ${COSA_RPMOSTREE_GDB:-} rpm-ostree compose extensions --repo="${repo}" \
-            --touch-if-changed "${changed_stamp}" --cachedir="${workdir}"/cache \
-            ${COSA_RPMOSTREE_ARGS:-} "$@" --output-dir "$outputdir"
-
-    echo "Running: $*"
-
-    # this is the heart of the privs vs no privs dual path
-    if has_privileges; then
-        # we hardcode a umask of 0022 here to make sure that composes are run
-        # with a consistent value, regardless of the environment
-        (umask 0022 && sudo -E "$@")
-        sudo chown -R -h "${USER}":"${USER}" "${outputdir}"
-    else
-        # Use a snapshot version of the cache qcow2 to allow multiple users
-        # of the cache at the same time. This is needed because the extensions
-        # and other artifacts are built in parallel.
-        local snapshot='on'
-        runvm_with_cache_snapshot "${snapshot}" -- "$@"
-    fi
-}
-
-# Run with cache disk with optional snapshot=on, which means no changes get written back to
-# the cache disk. `runvm_with_cache_snapshot on` will set snapshotting to on.
-runvm_with_cache_snapshot() {
-    local snapshot=$1; shift
+# Run with cache disk.
+runvm_with_cache() {
     local cache_size=${RUNVM_CACHE_SIZE:-30G}
     # "cache2" has an explicit label so we can find it in qemu easily
     if [ ! -f "${workdir}"/cache/cache2.qcow2 ]; then
@@ -618,16 +588,11 @@ runvm_with_cache_snapshot() {
     fi
     # And remove the old one
     rm -vf "${workdir}"/cache/cache.qcow2
-    cache_args+=("-drive" "if=none,id=cache,discard=unmap,snapshot=${snapshot},file=${workdir}/cache/cache2.qcow2" \
+    cache_args+=("-drive" "if=none,id=cache,discard=unmap,file=${workdir}/cache/cache2.qcow2" \
                         "-device" "virtio-blk,drive=cache")
     runvm "${cache_args[@]}" "$@"
 }
 
-runvm_with_cache() {
-    local snapshot='off'
-    runvm_with_cache_snapshot $snapshot "$@"
-}
-
 # Strips out the digest field from lockfiles since they subtly conflict with
 # various workflows.
 strip_out_lockfile_digests() {