[Spice-devel] Windows 7 64 bit support

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Mon Mar 15 09:50:21 PDT 2010


  On 3/15/2010 6:19 PM, Michal Purzynski wrote:
> hey,
>
> i'm trying to install the latest drivers binary release
> (windows_binaries 0.4 downloaded from spice-space.org) in windows 7, 64 bit.
> it refuses to install them, since they aren't 64 bit.
>
> what can i do about that? compille the never ones from repo? i'd like to
> know if anyone got it working, before i setup a giant env just to know
> it won't ;)
>
> cheers, keep up amazing work
>
> Michal Purzynski
>
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Having them as 64bit is only the beginning (I think patches for it are 
on their way, but not sure). You need to also test-sign them and allow 
test-signed drivers to be installed on Win7/64.
Not an easy-feat, but doable.
Y.


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