# Knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

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**Created:** [June 10, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-vsphere-bootstrap-winrm/5392 "2014-06-10T11:08:44Z")\
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Hi All,

Do you know if I can get knife vsphere to support bootstrapping with winrm? Is there any pre-written code anywhere to do this?

Cheers,

Simon Hawkins

Senior Windows Systems Engineer  
Total Jobs Group  
8th Floor, Lacon House  
84 Theobalds Road  
London WC1X 8TG  
’ +44 (0)20 7611 4359 (mobile) 07799 885261  
@ [simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)[mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)  
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Looking in the code for knife-vsphere, I don't see anything related to  
Windows bootstrapping.

> <https://github.com/chef/knife-vsphere/blob/main/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb>

There is Windows bootstrapping support in several knife plugins (EC2,  
OpenStack, etc.), so I assume porting this logic over would be fairly  
straightforward. It's not a Chef-maintained plugin, but if someone's  
interested in getting this done, I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Thanks,  
Matt Ray  
Director of Partner Integration :: Chef  
512.731.2218 :: [matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)  
mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Simon Hawkins  
[Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com) wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Do you know if I can get knife vsphere to support bootstrapping with winrm?  
> Is there any pre-written code anywhere to do this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon Hawkins
> 
> Senior Windows Systems Engineer
> 
> Total Jobs Group
> 
> 8th Floor, Lacon House
> 
> 84 Theobalds Road
> 
> London WC1X 8TG
> 
> ' +44 (0)20 7611 4359 (mobile) 07799 885261
> 
> @ [simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)
> 
> T [www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com)
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Hi Matt,

I would be, I have found some code in [https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2\_server\_create.rb](https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2_server_create.rb)

But if you could point me in the direction of where the knife vsphere code is placed on my chef workstation I could possibly figure out the logic.

Cheers,

Simon.

-----Original Message-----  
From: Matt Ray [[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)]  
Sent: 11 June 2014 05:21  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

Looking in the code for knife-vsphere, I don't see anything related to Windows bootstrapping.

> <https://github.com/chef/knife-vsphere/blob/main/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb>

There is Windows bootstrapping support in several knife plugins (EC2, OpenStack, etc.), so I assume porting this logic over would be fairly straightforward. It's not a Chef-maintained plugin, but if someone's interested in getting this done, I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Thanks,  
Matt Ray  
Director of Partner Integration :: Chef  
512.731.2218 :: [matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)  
mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Simon Hawkins [Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com) wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Do you know if I can get knife vsphere to support bootstrapping with winrm?  
> Is there any pre-written code anywhere to do this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon Hawkins
> 
> Senior Windows Systems Engineer
> 
> Total Jobs Group
> 
> 8th Floor, Lacon House
> 
> 84 Theobalds Road
> 
> London WC1X 8TG
> 
> ' +44 (0)20 7611 4359 (mobile) 07799 885261
> 
> @ [simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)
> 
> T [www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com)
> 
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It should be at  
c:opscodechefembeddedlibrubygems1.9.1gemschef-11.8.0-x86-mingw32libchefknifeec2\_server\_create.rb

Change the version and install dir to fit your install.

Tensibai

Le 2014-06-11 11:39, Simon Hawkins a écrit :

> Hi Matt,
> 
> I would be, I have found some code in [knife-ec2/lib/chef/knife/ec2\_server\_create.rb at main · chef/knife-ec2 · GitHub](https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2_server_create.rb) [2]
> 
> But if you could point me in the direction of where the knife vsphere code is placed on my chef workstation I could possibly figure out the logic.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -----Original Message-----  
> From: Matt Ray [[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)]  
> Sent: 11 June 2014 05:21  
> To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> Subject: [chef] Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm
> 
> Looking in the code for knife-vsphere, I don't see anything related to Windows bootstrapping.  
> [knife-vsphere/lib/chef/knife/vsphere\_vm\_clone.rb at main · chef/knife-vsphere · GitHub](https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb) [3]
> 
> There is Windows bootstrapping support in several knife plugins (EC2, OpenStack, etc.), so I assume porting this logic over would be fairly straightforward. It's not a Chef-maintained plugin, but if someone's interested in getting this done, I'd be happy to lend a hand.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Matt Ray  
> Director of Partner Integration :: Chef  
> 512.731.2218 :: [matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)  
> mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Simon Hawkins [Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi All, Do you know if I can get knife vsphere to support bootstrapping with winrm? Is there any pre-written code anywhere to do this? Cheers, Simon Hawkins Senior Windows Systems Engineer Total Jobs Group 8th Floor, Lacon House 84 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8TG ' +44 (0)20 7611 4359 (mobile) 07799 885261 @ [simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com) T [www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com) [1] \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Disclaimer This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) ("Intended Recipient") to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. If you are not the Intended Recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. Totaljobs Group Limited Registered Office: Holden House, 57 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JU,  
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## Links:

[1] [http://www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com)  
[2]  
[knife-ec2/lib/chef/knife/ec2\_server\_create.rb at main · chef/knife-ec2 · GitHub](https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2_server_create.rb)  
[3]  
[knife-vsphere/lib/chef/knife/vsphere\_vm\_clone.rb at main · chef/knife-vsphere · GitHub](https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb)

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Hi Tensibai,

I meant the vsphere code, but I managed to locate it in:

/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/knife-vsphere-0.9.9/lib/chef/knife/vsphere\_vm\_clone.rb

So will see if I can make the code work.

Cheers,  
Simon

From: Tensibai [[mailto:tensibai@iabis.net](mailto:tensibai@iabis.net)]  
Sent: 11 June 2014 13:23  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

It should be at c:\opscode\chef\embedded\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\chef-11.8.0-x86-mingw32\lib\chef\knife\ec2\_server\_create.rb

Change the version and install dir to fit your install.

Tensibai

Le 2014-06-11 11:39, Simon Hawkins a écrit :

Hi Matt,

I would be, I have found some code in [https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2\_server\_create.rb](https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2_server_create.rb)

But if you could point me in the direction of where the knife vsphere code is placed on my chef workstation I could possibly figure out the logic.

Cheers,

Simon.

-----Original Message-----

From: Matt Ray [[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)]

Sent: 11 June 2014 05:21

To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)[mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)

Subject: [chef] Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

Looking in the code for knife-vsphere, I don’t see anything related to Windows bootstrapping.

> <https://github.com/chef-partners/knife-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb>

There is Windows bootstrapping support in several knife plugins (EC2, OpenStack, etc.), so I assume porting this logic over would be fairly straightforward. It’s not a Chef-maintained plugin, but if someone’s interested in getting this done, I’d be happy to lend a hand.

Thanks,

Matt Ray

Director of Partner Integration :: Chef

512.731.2218 :: [matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)

mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Simon Hawkins \<[Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)[mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)\> wrote:  
Hi All, Do you know if I can get knife vsphere to support bootstrapping with winrm? Is there any pre-written code anywhere to do this? Cheers, Simon Hawkins Senior Windows Systems Engineer Total Jobs Group 8th Floor, Lacon House 84 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8TG ’ +44 (0)20 7611 4359 (mobile) 07799 885261 @ [simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)[mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com) T [www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com)[http://www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Disclaimer This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (“Intended Recipient”) to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. If you are not the Intended Recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. Totaljobs Group Limited Registered Office: Holden House, 57 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JU, UK Registered in England and Wales under company no. 4269861 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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Hi All,

I’ve managed to combine some code into knife vsphere to bootstrap using winrm, but I get the following error:

Exception: NameError: undefined local variable or method `bootstrap\_directory’

And it happens when it calls this method:

def bootstrap\_for\_node\_windows()  
Chef:🔪:Bootstrap.load\_deps  
bootstrap = Chef:🔪:Bootstrap.new  
bootstrap.name\_args = [config[:fqdn]]  
bootstrap.config[:run\_list] = get\_config(:run\_list).split(/[\s,]+/)  
bootstrap.config[:winrm\_user] = get\_config(:winrm\_user)  
bootstrap.config[:winrm\_password] = get\_config(:windows\_password)  
bootstrap.config[:winrm\_transport] = get\_config(:winrm\_transport)  
bootstrap.config[:kerberos\_keytab\_file] = Chef::Config[:knife][:kerberos\_keytab\_file] if Chef::Config[:knife][:kerberos\_keytab\_file]  
bootstrap.config[:kerberos\_realm] = Chef::Config[:knife][:kerberos\_realm] if Chef::Config[:knife][:kerberos\_realm]  
bootstrap.config[:kerberos\_service] = Chef::Config[:knife][:kerberos\_service] if Chef::Config[:knife][:kerberos\_service]  
bootstrap.config[:ca\_trust\_file] = Chef::Config[:knife][:ca\_trust\_file] if Chef::Config[:knife][:ca\_trust\_file]  
bootstrap.config[:manual] = true  
bootstrap.config[:winrm\_port] = get\_config(:winrm\_port)  
bootstrap.config[:secret\_file] = get\_config(:secret\_file)  
bootstrap.config[:ssh\_user] = get\_config(:ssh\_user)  
bootstrap.config[:ssh\_password] = get\_config(:ssh\_password)  
bootstrap.config[:ssh\_port] = get\_config(:ssh\_port)  
bootstrap.config[:identity\_file] = get\_config(:identity\_file)  
bootstrap.config[:chef\_node\_name] = get\_config(:chef\_node\_name)  
bootstrap.config[:prerelease] = get\_config(:prerelease)  
bootstrap.config[:bootstrap\_version] = get\_config(:bootstrap\_version)  
bootstrap.config[:distro] = get\_config(:distro)  
bootstrap.config[:use\_sudo] = true unless get\_config(:ssh\_user) == 'root’  
bootstrap.config[:template\_file] = get\_config(:template\_file)  
bootstrap.config[:environment] = get\_config(:environment)  
bootstrap.config[:first\_boot\_attributes] = get\_config(:first\_boot\_attributes)  
bootstrap.config[:log\_level] = get\_config(:log\_level)  
# may be needed for vpc\_mode  
bootstrap.config[:no\_host\_key\_verify] = get\_config(:no\_host\_key\_verify)  
bootstrap  
end

Am I missing a class that should be loaded which contains a method called “bootstrap\_directory’ ?

Cheers,  
Simon.

From: Simon Hawkins [[mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)]  
Sent: 11 June 2014 13:30  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] RE: Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

Hi Tensibai,

I meant the vsphere code, but I managed to locate it in:

/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/knife-vsphere-0.9.9/lib/chef/knife/vsphere\_vm\_clone.rb

So will see if I can make the code work.

Cheers,  
Simon

From: Tensibai [[mailto:tensibai@iabis.net](mailto:tensibai@iabis.net)]  
Sent: 11 June 2014 13:23  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)[mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

It should be at c:\opscode\chef\embedded\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\chef-11.8.0-x86-mingw32\lib\chef\knife\ec2\_server\_create.rb

Change the version and install dir to fit your install.

Tensibai

Le 2014-06-11 11:39, Simon Hawkins a écrit :

Hi Matt,

I would be, I have found some code in [https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2\_server\_create.rb](https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/ec2_server_create.rb)

But if you could point me in the direction of where the knife vsphere code is placed on my chef workstation I could possibly figure out the logic.

Cheers,

Simon.

-----Original Message-----

From: Matt Ray [[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)]

Sent: 11 June 2014 05:21

To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)[mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)

Subject: [chef] Re: knife vsphere bootstrap winrm

Looking in the code for knife-vsphere, I don’t see anything related to Windows bootstrapping.

> <https://github.com/chef-partners/knife-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb>

There is Windows bootstrapping support in several knife plugins (EC2, OpenStack, etc.), so I assume porting this logic over would be fairly straightforward. It’s not a Chef-maintained plugin, but if someone’s interested in getting this done, I’d be happy to lend a hand.

Thanks,

Matt Ray

Director of Partner Integration :: Chef

512.731.2218 :: [matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)[mailto:matt@getchef.com](mailto:matt@getchef.com)

mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Simon Hawkins \<[Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)[mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:Simon.Hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)\> wrote:  
Hi All, Do you know if I can get knife vsphere to support bootstrapping with winrm? Is there any pre-written code anywhere to do this? Cheers, Simon Hawkins Senior Windows Systems Engineer Total Jobs Group 8th Floor, Lacon House 84 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8TG ’ +44 (0)20 7611 4359 (mobile) 07799 885261 @ [simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com)[mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com](mailto:simon.hawkins@totaljobsgroup.com) T [www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com)[http://www.totaljobsgroup.com](http://www.totaljobsgroup.com) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Disclaimer This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (“Intended Recipient”) to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. If you are not the Intended Recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. Totaljobs Group Limited Registered Office: Holden House, 57 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JU, UK Registered in England and Wales under company no. 4269861 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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