[chef] Re: Quick bento query

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

At the moment, I have to say that the boxcutter project is pretty good and 
has shaved a lot of the requisite yaks already. Speaking as someone who has 
worked on bento in the past (though I’m no longer a maintainer due to 
ENOTIME) I’m a little reluctant for us to duplicate work unless there’s a 
compelling reason — e.g. we bring a vastly different philosophy to the table 
than another box-building project.

One of those differentiating factors might be if we were able to somehow 
build Windows bento boxes in the CI we have set up for Bento, much as we do 
for almost all the other Linuxes. The challenges to that are:

* Microsoft doesn’t let us distribute finished boxes publicly due to their 
restrictive EULA
* The ISO images aren’t publicly accessible

We realize this makes the experience of using Test Kitchen with Windows 
guests pretty poor, but it is a legal issue not a technical one IMO. So far 
we’ve not had luck convincing MSFT counsel to see the light.

- Julian

> On Sep 27, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Sean Farrow 
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> Hi,
> 
> Would windows support be something you'd be interested in? What would be 
> involved in doing this--I'm happy to contribute if this is wanted.
> Cheers
> Sean.
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> From: Julian C. Dunn 
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> Subject: [chef] Re: Quick bento query
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> The bento project doesn't support Windows boxes... yet. The boxcutter 
> project has working definitions I've used in the past, though:
> https://github.com/boxcutter/windows
> 
> - Julian
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Sean Farrow 
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> How does bento create windows vm’s using packer?
>> 
>> I took a look at the GitHub repo and this didn’t seem to make sense.
>> 
>> Any explanations appreciated.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Sean.
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> 
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