Add support for Windows

[AnwarYagoub]

Add support to use Windows as host machine for this environment.

suggestions:

• use babun to install ansible.
• use vagrant ansible_local provisioner.

[smartbit]

Does #18 fix this issue?

[AnwarYagoub]

It fix it partially. we need to add documentation & also check if everything is running smoothly on Windows

[AnwarYagoub]

@smartbit

As I got from a previous conversation you have macOS & everything is okay with you. so why not to add documentation for macOS?

As for Linux everything is okay & I have Linux machine to test changes.

[smartbit]

I suggest in README.md we

• make sections for each guest OS
• remove the $ to enable easier copying
• remove 32bit What do you think?

I'll take a look at OSX and make a proposal for README.md

[AnwarYagoub]

• I prefer .md file for every OS WINDOWS.md LINUX.md OSX.md & link all the file to the READEME.md
• What about linking to Vagrant & VirtualBox website for download instruction instead of giving it here.
• Okay with remove of 32-bit instruction.
• the propmt $ make it clear that you need to type in a terminal if we remove it may lead to some confusion. what do you think?

[smartbit]

• separate files is fine with me, OSX is now called macOS. Instructions for Fedora are different due to dnf, so Linux.md will have to be two separate files or have 2 different chapters. I'm not going to test Oracle Linux, are you? If not, I suggest we remove.
• download instructions for Vagrant & VirtualBox RHEL/CentOS on their respective site are IMHO not complete. See below for an example of more complete instructions.
• ok, no 32bit any more
• I like to copy a few lines and paste them in the terminal. $ makes that impossible.
• how about sudo? I prefer su - as first command. On macOS I'll keep using sudo though....
• what versions of Debian/Ubuntu do we want to test? 16.04 seems fine, but testing all others....

sample:

RHEL/CentOS 64-bit

su - 
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo
yum clean dbcache; yum -y repolist    # Import the GPG keys
yum -y install epel-release           # should be 7.8
export virtualbox_version=`yum search VirtualBox | grep "VirtualBox-" | sed 's/ : Oracle VM VirtualBox//' | sed 's/.x86_64//' | tail -1`
yum -y install git gcc make kernel-devel $virtualbox_version
/sbin/vboxconfig                      # load the vboxdrv kernel module
systemctl status vboxdrv              # enabled?
VBoxManage --version                  # should return no errors
reboot

su - 
export vagrant_version=`wget --quiet -O - https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/ | sed -n 's/.*href="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' | sort -r | head -1 | sed 's/[\/|vagrant]//g'`
yum -y install https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/"$vagrant_version"/vagrant_"$vagrant_version"_x86_64.rpm

[epicavic]

i can help with adding support for windows i'm using babun and ansible on win7 in fact you don't need use babun + ansible (as soon as you're using ansible_local) the only issue i've encountered so far was the detecting Virtualbox home dir and "example.com" domain is registered already so it cannot be used by ipa server. i will test and will try to add pull request

[AnwarYagoub]

@epicavic You are more than welcomed to do so

[smartbit]

@epicavic indeed welcome, please submit a PR. Some remarks and questions for giving you a good start.

• Personally I never heard of Babun before. Given the current low penetration of Win10, on first sight, Babun seems a viable alternative to Windows Subsystem for Linux. Do you think aspirant RHCSA/RHCE would install Babun?
• Would it be possible to add support for both Babun and WSL in a combined set of instructions/batch/bash file(s)?
• The vagrant images lack certain features and not al exercises can be done on them. All exercises can (probably) be done on the V3.0.3 images by Sander. @AnwarYagoub created a sample Packer repository which could be a starting point for overcoming the limitations of the vagrant images.

Hopes this helps, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to discuss or ask.

[epicavic]

• Installation is pretty straightforward. In fact it's a wrapper around cygwin. Gives you all the advantages of bash shell and compiled packages for cygwin project ... but it's not an alternative to WSL.
• not sure if it's required to add WSL or Babun. "vagrant up" should work from cmd.exe without any issues.
• i will check if all exercises can be done with vagrant images...if not - will compare to Sanders images.

On 16 April 2017 at 16:34, smartbit notifications@github.com wrote:

@epicavic https://github.com/epicavic indeed welcome, please submit a PR. Some remarks and questions for giving you a good start.

• Personally I never heard of Babun https://github.com/babun/babun before. Given the current low penetration of Win10, on first sight, Babun seems a viable alternative to Windows Subsystem for Linux https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about. Do you think aspirant RHCSA/RHCE would install Babun?
• Would it be possible to add support for both Babun and WSL in a combined set of instructions/batch/bash file(s)?
• The vagrant images lack certain features and not al exercises can be done on them. All exercises can (probably) be done on the V3.0.3 images by Sander https://www.rhatcert.com/downloads/. @AnwarYagoub https://github.com/AnwarYagoub created a sample Packer repository https://github.com/AnwarYagoub/Packer-Test which could be a starting point for overcoming the limitations of the vagrant images.

Hopes this helps, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to discuss or ask.

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