1 Open vSwitch Windows installer
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4 This project generates a MSI installer for Open vSwitch on Windows, including
5 CLI executables, services and the Hyper-V vswitch forwarding extension.
10 Visual Studio 2013 community, professional, premium or ultimate edition
11 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
13 Visual Studio Community 2013 is freely available at:
14 https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx
19 Download and install from:
20 http://wixtoolset.org/releases/v3.9/stable
22 Microsoft_VC120_CRT_x86.msm
23 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
25 This Windows merge module is available with Visual Studio and contains the
26 Visual C++ 2013 x86 runtime redistributables files.
27 Copy the file in the *Redist* directory.
29 Open vSwitch installer
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32 The installer will be generated under the following path:
33 * windows\ovs-windows-installer\bin\Release\OpenvSwitch.msi
35 Note: the kernel driver needs to be signed.
41 Build the solution in the Visual Studio IDE or via command line:
43 msbuild ovs-windows-installer.sln /p:Platform=x86 /p:Configuration=Release
48 msiexec /i OpenvSwitch.msi ADDLOCAL=OpenvSwitchCLI,OpenvSwitchDriver /l*v log.txt