[Spice-devel] Windows 7 x64

[Damien Churchill]

On 5 June 2011 08:31, Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:45:09PM +0100, Damien Churchill wrote:
>> On 2 June 2011 16:36, Al <yatengo.yimeil at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Damien Churchill <damoxc <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I've compiled and installed the latest qxl driver for 64bit Windows 7,
>> >
>> > It would be great if you could share how you built qxl for 64 bits as the
>> > spice-space documentation for building the driver is not very clear, at
>> > least for recent people (including me) that are experimenting with this
>> > protocol.
>> >
>>
>> I simply followed the instructions available on:
>> http://spice-space.org/page/WinQXL
>>
>> Building
>>
>> 1. Get latest WinDDK and install it
>> 2. Grab spice-protocol and snapshot of win32qxl and extract somewhere
>> 3. Open a Free Build x64 command prompt from the WinDDK
>> 4. set SPICE_COMMON_DIR=c:\path\to\spice-protocol
>> 5. cd to qxl directory
>> 6. build -cZg
>>
>> Signing
>>
>> Follow the steps here on how to sign the driver with a test certificate:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5698617/signing-x64-driver-with-test-certificate
>>
>> Installing
>>
>> 1. Open elevated command prompt
>> 2. bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
>> 3. bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
>> 4. Copy qxldd.dll to c:\windows\system32\
>> 5. Copy qxl.sys to c:\windows\system32\drivers\
>> 6. Reboot
>>
>> That's roughly the steps I took.
>
> Mind if I copy the signing part into the wiki?

Of course not, whatever will help get more testing for x64 I'm happy for.