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+title: Windows XP and Vagrant
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+# {{ page.title }}
+
+Getting Windows XP and Vagrant to play together needs some manual
+labour.
+
+General steps are:
+
+- install [WinRM](https://github.com/WinRb/WinRM) (on host)
+- install [vagrant-windows](https://github.com/WinRb/vagrant-windows)
+- install Windows XP SP3
+- install the latest .NET Framework 2.0
+- install [Windows Management Framework](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929)
+- try to make `winrm quickconfig` to work on the guest
+- install symlink driver
+- create a vagrant base box
+
+## Installing *vagrant-windows*
+
+This should be a simple thing:
+
+    vagrant plugin install vagrant-windows
+
+If your vagrant version is >=1.2.0, and vagrant-windows hasn't yet
+released support for vagrant-1.2, then you need to manually do the
+installation:
+
+    > git clone https://github.com/WinRb/vagrant-windows.git
+    > cd vagrant-windows
+    > bundler install
+    > rake build
+    > vagrant install plugin pkg/vagrant-windows-1.2.0.gem
+
+This is atleast what I had to do. YMMV.
+
+## Make `winrm quickconfig` working
+
+Using the `quickconfig` subcommand you can get the WinRM interface
+working quickly. It might work for you the first time, but atleast I
+got some *Access Denied* errors. To make it work I had to google for
+the error and I found a few different tips you could try:
+
+- try to run the `winrm` command from an Administrator prompt (make sure that
+the administrator account password is not empty!)
+- run `Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa forceguest 0` or
+  the same command with `1` at the end
+- try [this](http://www.shirmanov.com/2011/04/winrm-access-is-denied-on-local.html) tip
+- `winrm set winrm/config/client/auth @{Basic="true"}`
+
+If the tips here do not work, you should be able to find more by
+googling.
+
+## Symbolic links
+
+Directions can be found [here](http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#symboliclinksforwindowsxp).
+
+After installing, you can create symbolic links to network shares
+and so on with the tool `ln.exe`:
+
+    C:\symlink> ln.exe -s "\\remote\share" share_from_remote
+
+## Create a vagrant base box
+
+    vagrant package --base YourWindowsXpVMNameInVirtualBox --output YourWindowsXpVMNameInVirtualBox.box
+    vagrant box add YourWindowsXpVMNameInVirtualBox YourWindowsXpVMNameInVirtualBox.box
+