The XenServer Windows Installer Packages

The XenServer windows installer packages consists of

6 MSIs for installing 32 bit and 64 bit versions of

• The XenServer Windows Guest Agent
• The XenServer Windows Paravirtualized Drivers
• The XenServer Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service Provider

An installwizard service for handling automated updates and installations of the tools (which internally used the correct MSIs from the list above)

A 32 bit MSI for installing and starting the installwizard service

Quick Start

Prerequisites to build

• Visual Studio 2012 or later
• Python 3 or later
• WIX (Windows Installer XML) Version 3.5

Environment variables used in building the installer

BUILD_NUMBER Build number

WIX location of the WIX binaries

VS location of visual studio

Commands to build

To build the installer, first construct a package output directory containing a subdirectory for each of the other windows tools projects. The subdirectories should be named

• xenbus
• xenguestagent
• xeniface
• xenvif
• xennet
• xenvbd
• xenvss

Each subdirectory should have the relevent build output of it's associated component copied inside

Then use the following commands

git clone http://github.com/xenserver/win-installer
cd win-installer
.\build.py --local <build output directory>

To sign the drivers with a certificate installed on the build machine, the following additional arguments can be placed after the build output directory in the .\build.py command

--sign <certificate name> 
    Sign with the best certificate matching <certificate name>

--addcert <certificate file> 
    Add an aditional <certificate file> to the signature block

Alternatively a user specified commandline (to which the name of the file to be signed is appended) can be specifed as follows

--signcmd <full command line for signing tool>