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
6 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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
14 Convention for heading levels in Open vSwitch documentation:
16 ======= Heading 0 (reserved for the title in a document)
22 Avoid deeper levels because they do not render well.
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
37 Community, Professional, Premium or Ultimate editions can be used.
39 Visual Studio Community 2013 is freely available from `visualstudio.com
40 <https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx>`__
44 Download and install from `wixtoolset.org
45 <http://wixtoolset.org/releases/v3.9/stable>`__
47 * ``Microsoft_VC120_CRT_x86.msm``
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
53 Open vSwitch installer
54 ----------------------
56 The installer will be generated under the following path::
58 windows\ovs-windows-installer\bin\Release\OpenvSwitch.msi
62 The kernel driver needs to be signed.
67 Build the solution in the Visual Studio IDE or via command line::
69 msbuild ovs-windows-installer.sln /p:Platform=x86 /p:Configuration=Release
76 msiexec /i OpenvSwitch.msi ADDLOCAL=OpenvSwitchCLI,OpenvSwitchDriver /l*v log.txt