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| 2 | Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may | |
| 3 | not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain | |
| 4 | a copy of the License at | |
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6 | http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
| 9 | distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT | |
| 10 | WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the | |
| 11 | License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations | |
| 12 | under the License. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | Convention for heading levels in Open vSwitch documentation: | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | ======= Heading 0 (reserved for the title in a document) | |
| 17 | ------- Heading 1 | |
| 18 | ~~~~~~~ Heading 2 | |
| 19 | +++++++ Heading 3 | |
| 20 | ''''''' Heading 4 | |
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| 22 | Avoid deeper levels because they do not render well. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | ============== | |
| 25 | Windows README | |
| 26 | ============== | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | This directory contains tooling to generate an MSI installer for Open vSwitch | |
| 29 | on Windows, including CLI executables, services and the Hyper-V vswitch | |
| 30 | forwarding extension. | |
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31 | |
| 32 | Requirements | |
| 33 | ------------ | |
| 34 | ||
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35 | * Visual Studio 2013 |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | Community, Professional, Premium or Ultimate editions can be used. | |
| d183efc2 | 38 | |
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39 | Visual Studio Community 2013 is freely available from `visualstudio.com |
| 40 | <https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx>`__ | |
| d183efc2 | 41 | |
| bbb733c6 | 42 | * WiX Toolset 3.9 |
| d183efc2 | 43 | |
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44 | Download and install from `wixtoolset.org |
| 45 | <http://wixtoolset.org/releases/v3.9/stable>`__ | |
| d183efc2 | 46 | |
| bbb733c6 | 47 | * ``Microsoft_VC120_CRT_x86.msm`` |
| d183efc2 | 48 | |
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49 | This Windows merge module is available with Visual Studio and contains the |
| 50 | Visual C++ 2013 x86 runtime redistributables files. Copy the file in the | |
| 51 | ``Redist`` directory. | |
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52 | |
| 53 | Open vSwitch installer | |
| 54 | ---------------------- | |
| 55 | ||
| bbb733c6 | 56 | The installer will be generated under the following path:: |
| d183efc2 | 57 | |
| bbb733c6 | 58 | windows\ovs-windows-installer\bin\Release\OpenvSwitch.msi |
| d183efc2 | 59 | |
| bbb733c6 | 60 | .. note:: |
| d183efc2 | 61 | |
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62 | The kernel driver needs to be signed. |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | Build Instructions | |
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65 | ------------------ |
| 66 | ||
| bbb733c6 | 67 | Build the solution in the Visual Studio IDE or via command line:: |
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68 | |
| 69 | msbuild ovs-windows-installer.sln /p:Platform=x86 /p:Configuration=Release | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | Silent installation | |
| 72 | ------------------- | |
| 73 | ||
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74 | :: |
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| d183efc2 | 76 | msiexec /i OpenvSwitch.msi ADDLOCAL=OpenvSwitchCLI,OpenvSwitchDriver /l*v log.txt |