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<h1>Windows support</h1>
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<a name="installer" shape="rect" id="installer">Installation packages</a>
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Users who need pre-built Windows DLLs of libvirt are advised
to use the <a href="http://virt-manager.org" shape="rect">Virt Viewer</a>
pre-compiled <a href="http://virt-manager.org/download/" shape="rect">Windows MSI packages</a>
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along with any of their pre-requisite supporting DLLs, the virsh
command line tool and the virt-viewer & remote-viewer graphical
tools. The development headers are not currently provided in this
installer, so this cannot be used for compiling new applications
against libvirt.
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These connection types are known to work:
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<ul><li>QEMU with SSH (qemu+ssh://)</li></ul>
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Please let us know either the results (either way) if you do.
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<b>Special note</b> - Support for VirtualBox *on windows* was added in
libvirt 0.8.7, so reports on success and failure if you're using that
would be really helpful and appreciated.
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<b>WARNING - The qemu+tcp:// connection type passes all traffic
without encryption. This is a security hazard, and should <i>not</i>
be used in security sensitive environments.</b>
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Details on the capabilities, certificates, and connection string
syntax used for connecting to VMware ESX and vSphere can be found
online here:<br />
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<a href="http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html" shape="rect">http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html</a>
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TLS certificates need to have been created and placed in the correct
locations, before you will be able to connect to QEMU servers over
TLS.
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Information on generating TLS certificates can be found here:
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<a href="http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TLSSetup" shape="rect">http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TLSSetup</a>
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These instructions are for *nix, and have not yet been adapted for
Windows. You'll need to figure out the Windows equivalents until
that's done (sorry). If you can help us out with this, that would be
really welcome.
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The locations of the TLS certificates and key file on Windows are hard
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The Certificate Authority (CA) certificate file must be placed in:
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<ul><li>%APPDATA%\libvirt\pki\CA\cacert.pem</li></ul>
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The Client certificate file must be placed in:
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<ul><li>%APPDATA%\libvirt\pki\libvirt\clientcert.pem</li></ul>
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The Client key file must be placed in:
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<ul><li>%APPDATA%\libvirt\pki\libvirt\private\clientkey.pem</li></ul>
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On an example Windows 7 x64 system here, this resolves to these paths:
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<ul><li>C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Roaming\libvirt\pki\CA\cacert.pem</li><li>C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Roaming\libvirt\pki\libvirt\clientcert.pem</li><li>C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Roaming\libvirt\pki\libvirt\private\clientkey.pem</li></ul>
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Feedback and suggestions on changes to make and what else to include
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<a name="compiling" shape="rect" id="compiling">Compiling yourself</a>
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Libvirt can be compiled on Windows using the free
<a href="http://www.mingw.org/" shape="rect">MinGW compiler</a>.
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The easiest way is to use the <b>msys_setup</b> script, developed by
Matthias Bolte. This is actively developed and kept current with
libvirt releases:
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<a href="https://github.com/photron/msys_setup" shape="rect">https://github.com/photron/msys_setup</a>
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You can also cross-compile to a Windows target from a Fedora machine
using the packages available
<a href="http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/" shape="rect">from the Fedora MinGW project</a>
(which includes a working libvirt specfile).
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<a name="configure" shape="rect" id="configure">By hand</a>
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Use these options when following the instructions on the
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./configure \
--without-sasl \
--without-avahi \
--without-polkit \
--without-python \
--without-xen \
--without-qemu \
--without-lxc \
--without-openvz \
--without-libvirtd
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