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Alin Gabriel Serdean d183efc22b This commit adds the windows installer to the OVS tree.
Requirements are the following:
Visual Studio Community 2013
WiX Toolset 3.9
Microsoft_VC120_CRT_x86.msm

More detailed information on the requirements and build instructions
can be found under:
https://github.com/cloudbase/ovs-windows-installer/blob/master/README.rst

To run and make the installer issue the following:

./boot.sh
./configure CC=./build-aux/cccl LD="`which link`" \
LIBS="-lws2_32 -liphlpapi" --prefix="C:/openvswitch/usr" \
--localstatedir="C:/openvswitch/var" --sysconfdir="C:/openvswitch/etc" \
--with-pthread="C:/pthread" --with-vstudiotarget="Release"

make clean && make -j16 windows_installer

To uninstall one could use the following Powershell commandlets:
$app = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object `
 { $_.Name -match "Open Vswitch" }

$app.Uninstall()

Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@cloudbasesolutions.com>
Co-authored-by: Alessandro Pilotti <apilotti@cloudbasesolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Pilotti <apilotti@cloudbasesolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@nicira.com>
2015-06-07 14:40:52 -07:00
..

Open vSwitch Windows installer
==============================

This project generates a 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 edition
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Visual Studio Community 2013 is freely available at:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

WiX Toolset 3.9
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Download and install from:
http://wixtoolset.org/releases/v3.9/stable

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