+/* This function does the hard work of building the supermin appliance
+ * on the fly. 'path' is the directory containing the control files.
+ * 'kernel' and 'initrd' are where we will return the names of the
+ * kernel and initrd (only initrd is built). The work is done by
+ * an external script. We just tell it where to put the result.
+ */
+static int
+build_supermin_appliance (guestfs_h *g, const char *path,
+ char **kernel, char **initrd)
+{
+ char cmd[4096];
+ int r, len;
+
+ len = strlen (g->tmpdir);
+ *kernel = safe_malloc (g, len + 8);
+ snprintf (*kernel, len+8, "%s/kernel", g->tmpdir);
+ *initrd = safe_malloc (g, len + 8);
+ snprintf (*initrd, len+8, "%s/initrd", g->tmpdir);
+
+ snprintf (cmd, sizeof cmd,
+ "PATH='%s':$PATH "
+ "guestfs-supermin-helper '%s' %s %s",
+ path,
+ path, *kernel, *initrd);
+
+ r = system (cmd);
+ if (r == -1 || WEXITSTATUS(r) != 0) {
+ error (g, _("external command failed: %s"), cmd);
+ free (*kernel);
+ free (*initrd);
+ *kernel = *initrd = NULL;
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+