[chef] Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 Embedded Automation with Chef

[Torben Knerr < >]

Oh sorry, wrong mailing list.

Anyway, if you could help with this.... :-P



On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Torben Knerr 
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> Hi Ben,
>
> thanks for offering your help on this!
>
> For now I would be happy if I had a minimal Vagrantfile example with
> these guys working:
>
> * `vagrant up` should not hang / timeout
> * `vagrant ssh -c "echo foo"` should run the command
> * `vagrant provision` working with an inline: or path: (.bat / .ps)
> "shell" provisioner
> * example of a synced_folder (via vboxfs ideally) working
>
> So the plain vagrant basics basically ;-)
>
> I have lost belief a bit since I thought it would be a bit more
> straightforward with Vagrant / Windows guests.... :-/
>
> Any help / pointers appreciated
>
> Cheers,
> Torben
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Benjamin Micucci 
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>> Torben,
>>
>> There aren't many guides out there for Windows sadly. My team is primarily 
>> Windows & I've written a lot cookbooks for them. What sort of help are you 
>> looking for? If you need any help on the cookbooks itself or writing tests 
>> (ChefSpec & ServerSpec) I'd be more than happy to help you out!
>>
>> Good Luck!
>> Ben
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On May 5, 2015, at 1:20 AM, Torben Knerr 
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>>>  wrote:
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>>> ...or if someone can recommend a good "Chef on Windows 101" guide,
>>> that would be super helpful already :)
>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Torben Knerr 
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>>>>  wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I might be doing some Windows 7 Embedded automation with Chef.
>>>>
>>>> It's quite different from the workflow I'm currently used to (setting up
>>>> Linux servers) with specialties like physical access instead of network
>>>> access, no place to install chef, etc...
>>>>
>>>> We are currently thinking of providing chef along with all the 
>>>> installers on
>>>> an USB drive, and run chef zero from there.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone done something similar before and wants to share some thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Torben