[chef] knife ec2 ssh and windows 2008

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Hi,

I'm just starting to do a proof of concept to provision a AWS Windows 2008
environment using Chef but I'm having some problems which I was hoping someone
could help me with.

So far I have gone through the quick start guides which are really good and
I've got to the point where I can spin up an instance using something like:

knife ec2 server create -r "role[webserver]" -I ami-14bb047d --flavor t1.micro
--region us-east-1 -G default -N DanServer

This works but then it gets stuck on:
Waiting for sshd.....

I can see that it needs SSH on the server and I presume to get this working I
would need to create a base AMI with something like FreeSSH installed.

So my question is working in the Windows world I'm primarily going to be using
WinRM and it I don't really want to have SSH and WinRM open.

Is there a better way around this that I'm missing?  Can I tell knife not to 
do
the SSH bootstraping or are there any plans to have an option for WinRM?

Thanks

Dan