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.
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.msmThis Windows merge module is available with Visual Studio and contains the Visual C++ 2013 x86 runtime redistributables files. Copy the file in the
Redistdirectory.
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 the solution in the Visual Studio IDE or via command line:
msbuild ovs-windows-installer.sln /p:Platform=x86 /p:Configuration=Release
msiexec /i OpenvSwitch.msi ADDLOCAL=OpenvSwitchCLI,OpenvSwitchDriver /l*v log.txt