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Chapter 6 Silently Installing or Upgrading the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows

You can use a response file that you create with the graphical installation program to silently install or upgrade the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows. The response file provides the prompts that the installation program requires to successfully install or upgrade the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows.

Important

Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows must be signed by Microsoft to perform a silent installation or upgrade. See Section 2.3, “Microsoft Windows Compatibility Signing”.
You can perform a silent installation or upgrade only on supported 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows You cannot perform a silent installation or upgrade on any 32-bit version of Microsoft Windows. For more information, see Section 2.2, “Supported Guest Operating Systems”.

Before You Begin. Complete at least one installation or upgrade of the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows using the graphical installation program to create a response file. See Section 4.2, “Installing Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows” or Chapter 5, Upgrading the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows.

To install or upgrade the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows silently, do the following:

Locate the response file, setup.iss, in the C:\Windows directory on the filesystem of the computer where you ran the graphical installation program.
Copy setup.iss to the same directory as the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows installation program. Alternatively you can specify the location of the response file at the command line.
Open a command line window.
Run Setup.exe -s to silently install or upgrade the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows with the response file.

You can include the following options at the command line:
- -f1c:path\to\setup.iss to specify the location of setup.iss. For example, Setup.exe -s -f1c:\Users\Username\setup.iss.
- -f2c:path\to\setup.log to specify the location of setup.log. By default, log files are written to the the C:\Windows directory. For example, Setup.exe -s -f2c:\Users\Username\setup.log.