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.