# Trying to get Chef Solo to deploy Django/Virtualenv in Windows 7

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**Created:** [October 30, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/trying-to-get-chef-solo-to-deploy-django-virtualenv-in-windows-7/4624 "2013-10-30T01:29:36Z")\
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Hi Cheflings.

I've been having my hands full figuring out Chef for the first time. I'm  
trying to get chef-solo running on a Windows 7 VM, with django running in a  
virtualenv. The best help I found was here:

> **[Cooking on Windows with Chef - Chef Blog](https://blog.chef.io/cooking-on-windows-with-chef/)**
>
> Chef has had a long history of support for Microsoft Windows as a platform, dating back to 2011 when Opscode first released the knife-windows plugin to bootstrap and manage Windows servers. You can use both built-in Chef resources and a plethora of...

I see there's a python cookbook for Windows (at the repo it pointed me to here:  
[https://github.com/dougm/site-cookbooks/tree/master/windows](https://github.com/dougm/site-cookbooks/tree/master/windows)), which I managed  
to install, but am I going to have to create the recipes for virtualenv/django  
by hacking the linux-compatible python provider and also django cookbook to  
support Windows?

I don't suppose anyone can point me to a repo or reference material that might  
help me avoid reinventing things?