How to build WinKVM (English)

In this page, we will explain how to compile WinKVM.

You have to prepare three things as follows:
1. Cygwin environment including gcc-3.x, mingw-gcc-3.x, make, rsync, zlib-devel, gawk and libSDL http://www.cygwin.com/
2. Visual Studio 2008 professional edition (You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Express instead of professional edition) http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/express/
3. Windows DDK: We use 3790.1830 version (The Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) DDK) to develop WinKVM

You have to download and install these things.

Before building WinKVM driver, you have to set an environmental value that point to your Windows DDK installation path. Thus, you have to add BASEDIR2K3 environmental value (e.g.D:WINDDK3790.1830) to your Windows system. Visual Studio uses this environmental value at building WinKVM driver.

WinKVM building process is little confuse.
You have to build three things separately.
1. Building kvmctldll: Enter vcproj/user/kvmctldll and open kvmctldll.vcproj to build the kvm control library. After building kvmctldll, check vcproj/bin whether or not the building process was successful. If there is kvmctldll.dll in the directory, you succeeded.

2. Building original KVM drivers using Cygwin environment:

cd kvm/kernel
## Do not type configure
make
## you will get id: unrecognised emulation mode: elf_i386
## but it's not error
make cpobjs
## If you get not a directory message, make it and try again

3. Open vcproj/kernel/winkvm.vcproj to build WinKVM driver. check vcproj/bin whether or not the building process was successful. If there is winkvmstab.sys in the directory, you succeeded.

4. Finally, You have to build QEMU using cygwin environment. Enter to kvm/winkvm-qemu and …

cd kvm/winkvm-qemu
./configure --prefix=path/to/installation --enable-kvm --target-list=i386-softmmu --disable-kqemu
make
make install