[Spice-devel] Spice QXL Driver does not work for Windows 7

[Alon Levy]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:34:03PM +0200, Mario wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just trying to build the latest qxl windows drivers with the
> 0.8.0 protocol headers. I followed this guide exactly:
> http://spice-space.org/page/WinQXL
> 
> I built the drivers for both Windows XP/x86 and Windows 7/x86. XP is
> working well but my Windows 7 box tells me that the driver cannot
> start (code 10) in the Windows device manager (see attached
> picture).
> 
> I checked the dependencies for both - qxl.sys and qxldd.dll with
> Depends 2.2 but all dependencies are valid.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to debug the reason why the driver cannot
> start? Any Idea?
> 
> Can someone provide me Windows 7 x86 QXL drivers known to work?
> 

Looks like it isn't signed and windows doesn't like that. Try signing it.
Also, not sure how you installed it, but maybe try choosing all the manual
paths in the device-manager upate driver wizard.

> Thanks a lot for you help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario


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