eBPF setup for windows 11 IoT fails with 1603

[darbyShaw]

Hello,
I am new to the eBPF community and have been trying to get started with eBPF setup on my virtual machine running windows 11 IoT using this link:
https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows/blob/main/docs/InstallEbpf.md using method 2 with eBPF built on my host which is running windows 10 enterprise. I get the following error during installation:

PS C:\ebpf> .\setup-ebpf.ps1
PSScriptRoot is C:\ebpf
WorkingDirectory is C:\ebpf
Copying Visual C++ Redistributable debug runtime DLLs to the C:\Program Files (x86)\ebpf-for-windows\JIT directory...
Visual C++ Redistributable debug runtime DLLs copied successfully!
Installing the eBPF MSI package: 'msiexec.exe /i C:\ebpf\ebpf-for-windows.msi ADDLOCAL=ALL /qn /norestart /l*v msi-install.log'...
MSI installation FAILED. Exit code: 1603.
MSI installation FAILED. Exit code: 1603.
At C:\ebpf\setup-ebpf.ps1:94 char:9
throw ("MSI installation FAILED. Exit code: $($process.ExitCo ...
CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (MSI installatio...xit code: 1603.:String) [], RuntimeException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : MSI installation FAILED. Exit code: 1603.

The installation log shows some errors here:

MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:550]: Executing op: CacheSizeFlush(,) MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:550]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=Clear_eBPF_store_HKLM,,) MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:553]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=Clear_eBPF_store_HKLM,ActionType=3106,Source=C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows\,Target="C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows\export_program_info.exe" --clear,) MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:744]: Note: 1: 1722 2: Clear_eBPF_store_HKLM 3: C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows\ 4: "C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows\export_program_info.exe" --clear MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:744]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:744]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT MessageFROMErrorWHEREError= 1722 CustomAction Clear_eBPF_store_HKLM returned actual error code -1073741515 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox) MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:746]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:746]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECTMessageFROMErrorWHEREError` = 1709
MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:746]: Product: eBPF for Windows -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action Clear_eBPF_store_HKLM, location: C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows, command: "C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows\export_program_info.exe" --clear

Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action Clear_eBPF_store_HKLM, location: C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows, command: "C:\Program Files\ebpf-for-windows\export_program_info.exe" --clear
MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:751]: Note: 1: 2265 2: 3: -2147287035
MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:751]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:751]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
Action ended 18:13:32: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
MSI (s) (34:58) [18:13:32:755]: Note: 1: 2318 2: `

Please could you help me install eBPF for windows 11 IoT. Thank you very much in advance.

[Alan-Jowett]

The error code C0000135 aka -1073741515 aka STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND seems to suggest that this isn't finding some DLLs. I will see if I can reproduce this issue locally.

I am not sure if we are simply building against something that is not present in the IOT image or if this is just the missing CRT.

[Alan-Jowett]

The issue appears to be with the setup script. It doesn't add the debug CRT to the path, so the installer can't run with it.

As an alternative, can you try the following:

1. Build release (not debug).
2. Install https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
3. Run the setup script

[darbyShaw]

Thank you. The Release installation worked. There was no deploy script for the Release build, so I used the following files:

[System.Collections.ArrayList]$install_files = @(
    "ebpf-for-windows.msi",
    "setup-ebpf.ps1",
    #"vc_redist.x64.exe",
    # VC++ Redistributable Debug Runtime DLLs.
    "concrt140.dll",
    "msvcp140.dll",
    "msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll",
    "msvcp140_codecvt_ids.dll",
    "msvcp140_1.dll",
    "msvcp140_2.dll",
    "vccorlib140.dll",
    "vcruntime140.dll",
    "vcruntime140_1.dll",
    "vcruntime140_threads.dll"
    #"ucrtbased.dll"
    )

With this the installation succeeds. Thank you very much!

[darbyShaw]

However, I am unable to run the port_quota.exe.

PS C:\ebpf\Release> .\port_quota.exe load
Failed to load port quota eBPF program
(null)
PS C:\ebpf\Release>
PS C:\ebpf\Release>
PS C:\ebpf\Release>