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Windows README

This directory contains tooling to generate an MSI installer for Open vSwitch on Windows, including CLI executables, services and the Hyper-V vswitch forwarding extension.

Requirements

  • Visual Studio 2013

    Community, Professional, Premium or Ultimate editions can be used.

    Visual Studio Community 2013 is freely available from visualstudio.com

  • WiX Toolset 3.9

    Download and install from wixtoolset.org

  • Microsoft_VC120_CRT_x86.msm

    This Windows merge module is available with Visual Studio and contains the Visual C++ 2013 x86 runtime redistributables files. Copy the file in the Redist directory.

Open vSwitch installer

The installer will be generated under the following path:

windows\ovs-windows-installer\bin\Release\OpenvSwitch.msi

Note

The kernel driver needs to be signed.

Build Instructions

Build the solution in the Visual Studio IDE or via command line:

msbuild ovs-windows-installer.sln /p:Platform=x86 /p:Configuration=Release

Silent installation

msiexec /i OpenvSwitch.msi ADDLOCAL=OpenvSwitchCLI,OpenvSwitchDriver /l*v log.txt