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Point users to Virt-Viewer MSI installers for Windows builds 

The Windows port page currently links to pre-built libvirt
DLLs for release 0.8.8 which are 2 years old now. Until we
can reliably produce official Windows installers, point
people to the virt-viewer MSI installers instead which
include the libvirt DLLs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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as well but we either haven't tested or received reports for them.
</p>
<h2><a name="installer">Experimental installation package</a></h2>
<h2><a name="installer">Installation packages</a></h2>
<p>
A windows installation package is in development. An experimental
version is available here:
</p>
<a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.8-0.exe">http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.8-0.exe</a>
<p>
<b>It is not production ready.</b>
Users who need pre-built Windows DLLs of libvirt are advised
to use the <a href="http://virt-manager.org">Virt Viewer</a>
pre-compiled <a href="http://virt-manager.org/download/">Windows MSI packages</a>
</p>
<p>
This version includes the libvirt development headers and libraries
for compiling against, the virsh shell with its needed dependencies,
and untested Python bindings.
These installers include the libvirt, gtk-vnc and spice-gtk DLLs
along with any of their pre-requisite supporting DLLs, the virsh
command line tool and the virt-viewer &amp; remote-viewer graphical
tools. The development headers are not currently provided in this
installer, so this cannot be used for compiling new applications
against libvirt.
</p>
<h3><a name="caveats">Caveats</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
This installer just repackages the files compiled using Matthias
Bolte's msys_setup scripting (described below).
</li>
<li>
This is a .exe installer, created using NSIS. We're looking into
something to create .msi installers as well.
</li>
<li>
The script for the NSIS installer is available online
<a href="https://github.com/justinclift/nsis_libvirt_installer">here</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="knowninstallerprobs">Existing problems with this installer we know about</a></h3>
<p>
These are problems we know about, and need to be fixed in subsequent
versions of the installer (assistance welcomed):
</p>
<ul>
<li>
New versions install over other libvirt versions
<br /><br />
If a version of this installer has installed libvirt on the system
already, this installer will automatically suggest the same
installation location, then overwrite the version already there
without checking.
<br /><br />
This is fairly non-optimal, and should be fixed. What should
probably happen, is for this installer to detect an existing
installation then offer to either uninstall it first or ask for a
new installation location.
<br /><br />
</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="conntypes">Connection types</a></h2>
<p>