This is a page that explains how to use Chef to bring up Windows on DETER.

**NOTE: work in progress - do not actually do this yet.**

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- checkout the containers source tree
- switch to the configdb branch
- swap in an experiment with physical nodes loaded with the PNODE-BASE image.
- ssh to a pnode
- cd {{{[path to containers]/bin}}}
- run {{{./chef_configure.sh}}}
- edit the file /tmp/nodes.conf, which describes the nodes you want to spawn. The file format is below.
- run {{{./spawn_windows.sh}}} and wait a long time (like 5 minutes per container).

nodes.conf format and description:
{{{
nodes:
      - name: nodeOne
        image_name: deter/win7
        url: http://scratch/benito/deter_win7.box
        data_address: 10.1.1.100
        data_bridge: eth4

      - name: nodeTwo
        image_name: deter/win7
        url: http://scratch/benito/deter_win7.box
        data_address: 10.1.1.101
        data_bridge: eth4

...

}}}

nodes.conf description:
- {{{name}}}: the hostname of the new node
- {{{image_name}}}: the Vagrant name - this should be unique per image (*not* host, image)
- {{{url}}}: the URL to the container image
- {{{data_address}}}: the ip address of the container. Should really be in same subnet as host
- {{{data_bridge}}} - the interface to bridge the data address to from the container to the host.
- {{{control_addr}}} - [optional and experimental] the ip address for the container on the control network (172.16.x.x)
- {{{control_bridge}}} - [optional and experimental] - the host interface to bridge to the container's control address.

If you add an address you must add a bridge.