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diff --git a/_drafts/2013-08-05-windows-xp-and-vagrant.md b/_drafts/2013-08-05-windows-xp-and-vagrant.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab8270b --- /dev/null +++ b/_drafts/2013-08-05-windows-xp-and-vagrant.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Windows XP and Vagrant +--- + +# {{ 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 + |