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System Requirements

  • Microsoft Windows (incl. x64) 7/2008/Vista/2003/XP

  • VisualDDK supports developing & debugging both x86 and x64 drivers on both singleprocessor and multiprocessor systems. The following versions of Visual Studio are supported:

    • Visual Studio 2005
    • Visual Studio 2008
    • Visual Studio 2010

    VisualDDK was tested with the following versions of DDK/WDK:

    • Windows XP DDK build 2600.1106
    • WDK build 6000
    • WDK build 7600

Installation Instructions

Running the provided installer for VisualDDK is enough to setup the debugging environment on your machine. However, if you want to use the VisualDDK Launcher to launch your driver on remote machine, you should copy the target/(platform)/DDKLaunchMonitor.exe file from VisualDDK directory to your debugged machine, and launch it there. Please also ensure that your firewall allows sending TCP and UDP packets to the machine being debugged.

Note that if you are using VirtualBox or VMWare for debugging, you can speed up driver debugging by using VirtualKD instead of the usual virtual COM port. Just copy target\vminstall.exe from VisualDDK folder to your virtual machine, run it from there and let it restart your VM. Afterwards, select the Virtual Machine itself instead of a named pipe in VisualDDK launcher. You can also use vminstall.exe /AUTO /REBOOT for unattended installation.

Note that you also need to install the updated VirtualBox DLL. See this page for more details.

License

Copyright (c) 2011, Ivan Shcherbakov. All rights reserved.

The source code of VisualDDK is published under LGPL. The binaries are published under the following license:

Redistribution and use in the binary form is permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  • Any page on a third-party website containing a link to the product in a binary form, should contain a link to SysProgs website (http://sysprogs.com).

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