How to build for windows server 2008? about kvm-guest-drivers-windows

[YanVugenfirer]

Hi Ben,

How do you build? Are you using buildall.bat?
Where is you DDK installed?

Please provide the output of the buildall.bat.

Best regards,
Yan.

On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Ben [email protected] wrote:

I build with winddk 7600.16385.1, but encountered 'DDK_TARGET_OS defined as "WinLH" (unsupported)" error, how should I do to build out the binary?

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[geekben]

I installed WinDDK 7600.16385.1 on a Windows7 machine, then open the "X64 free build environment" for windows vista and 2008 server as administrator; then I cd the the path of VirtIO, execute buildAll.bat, the output is:

Then, I cd to the path of NetKVM, and execute buildAll.bat, the output is:

and, during the process, it always prints "...vs11 not installed", does this build also need some specific version of Visual Studio?

[geekben]

@YanVugenfirer , could you please share out how you build your building environment and how you build your code?

[YanVugenfirer]

Hi,

First off all you need to run buildall.bat from regular command line. It will take care of setting of the build environments if needed.

Before that in order to build drivers for Vista and up (Windows 2008 server and up) you will need to install Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 WDK (you can manage with VS2012 and WDK 8, but you will need to change some scripts and you won't get Windows 8.1 and Windows 2012R2 specific drivers and will have to use Windows 8 and Windows 2012 drivers).

Best regards,
Yan.

[geekben]

Hi Yan,

Now I have installed VS2013 and WDK8.1, I can build out the NetKVM.sys file, but when it was creating the .cat file with inf2cat.exe, an error occurred: "netkvm.inf does not have NTAMD64 decorated model sections."

I found NT%ARCH% in the netkvm.inf in dir wlh, after I modified it to NTAMD64, build successfully.

How can I provide the %ARCH% var to the build environment?

Best regards,
Yan.

[YanVugenfirer]

Hi Ben,

Please check that the repository was cloned with correct EOLs. MS stamp INF
utility fails to parse INF\INX files with Unix style EOLs.

Best regards,
Yan.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Ben [email protected] wrote:

Hi Yan,

Now I have installed VS2013 and WDK8.1, I can build out the NetKVM.sys
file, but when it was creating the .cat file with inf2cat.exe, an error
occurred: "netkvm.inf does not have NTAMD64 decorated model sections."

I found NT%ARCH% in the netkvm.inf in dir wlh, after I modified it to
NTAMD64, build successfully.

How can I provide the %ARCH% var to the build environment?

Best regards,
Yan.

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[geekben]

Hi Yan,

Thanks a lot, I cloned the code in linux, so the EOLs are changed, that's the cause of some of the problems. But now I find that vioscsi can't build out no .sys files, how can I build vioscsi?

Best regards
Ben

[YanVugenfirer]

Hi,

Sorry for that. Please pull latest changes.

Thanks,
Yan.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ben [email protected] wrote:

Hi Yan,

Thanks a lot, I cloned the code in linux, so the EOLs are changed, that's
the cause of some of the problems. But now I find that vioscsi can't build
out no .sys files, how can I build vioscsi?

Best regards
Ben

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[geekben]

Hi Yan,

Thanks a lot, new patches solved the problem.

Thanks!
Ben.

[YanVugenfirer]

No problem.

Thank you for the reports.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Ben [email protected] wrote:

Hi Yan,

Thanks a lot, new patches solved the problem.

Thanks!
Ben.

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