Running Winbox under Mac OS X Virtualbox

[mrjcleaver]

Hi Adam, This looks useful - have you any particular advice about running it in a Virtualbox VM?

It would be great to have a wiki page or something that shows how you'd set it up.

Thanks, Martin.

[adamedx]

Thanks @mrjcleaver. I think you can use it with your Virtualbox VM just like you'd use it in general, with Chef:

• If you've already created the VM, you can use the knife-windows gem that ships with ChefDK or install it from RubyGems to bootstrap the node with the recipe winbox in the runlist, i.e. something like

  knife bootstrap windows winrm yourvmname -x username -P yourpassword -r winbox
  

See the docs fo learn more about using knife-windows: https://docs.chef.io/plugin_knife_windows.html.

• Another option is to use Test-Kitchen, which can create your Virtualbox VM via vagrant and then bootstrap it with a recipe as in the above example. You'll need to supply your own kitchen yaml to make it work. See the getting started guide for Test Kitchen.