[Puppet Users] Installing puppet agent on Windows XP

[Jeff Sussna]

Trying to get Puppet 2.7.6/Facter 1.6.2 running on Windows XP SP3.
Followed the install instructions carefully, got no errors. facter and
puppet both hang no matter what I try. The only things that don't hang
are:

facter operatingsystem (or any other individual facter query)
facter --version

facter --debug hangs, as does puppet --version or any other puppet
command, including 'puppet config print all'.

Anyone have success getting puppet running on XP?

[Jacob Helwig]

Post by Jeff Sussna
Trying to get Puppet 2.7.6/Facter 1.6.2 running on Windows XP SP3.
Followed the install instructions carefully, got no errors. facter and
puppet both hang no matter what I try. The only things that don't hang
facter operatingsystem (or any other individual facter query)
facter --version
facter --debug hangs, as does puppet --version or any other puppet
command, including 'puppet config print all'.
Anyone have success getting puppet running on XP?

Right now, Puppet & Facter are only supported on Server 2003 & Server
2008, since those are the only platforms we tested against when working
on the Windows support. If come up with patches to get past the hangs
on XP we'd love to see them.

Which install instructions were you following? If it didn't clearly
call out which platforms are currently supported, we'll need to update
the instructions.

[Russell Van Tassell]

Post by Jeff Sussna

Post by Jeff Sussna
Trying to get Puppet 2.7.6/Facter 1.6.2 running on Windows XP SP3.
[...]

Anyone have success getting puppet running on XP?
Right now, Puppet & Facter are only supported on Server 2003 & Server
2008, since those are the only platforms we tested against when working
on the Windows support.

I would imagine that you could get it to work with Cygwin (under cygrunsrv)
on "any" Windows platform ... the SSH server there is already quite
reasonable, and Cygwin has a pre-built Ruby (among other similar scripting
languages); I've had the pleasure of setting up distributed build
environments through such mechanisms, so I'd not think puppet would be that
much of a stretch. I could be wrong, though...

[Jeff Sussna]

I want to use Puppet for things like installing Scheduled Tasks and
MSI packages, which I don't expect would work under cygwin.

I know it's not supported on XP, but gave it a try anyway. The
PuppetLabs folks said it "should" work, and were able to get it to run
on one of their machines.

I've narrowed the problem down to "facter puppetversion" hanging. All
other facter facts work fine.

Post by Russell Van Tassell

Post by Jeff Sussna

Post by Jeff Sussna
Trying to get Puppet 2.7.6/Facter 1.6.2 running on Windows XP SP3.
[...]

Anyone have success getting puppet running on XP?
Right now, Puppet & Facter are only supported on Server 2003 & Server
2008, since those are the only platforms we tested against when working
on the Windows support.

I would imagine that you could get it to work with Cygwin (under cygrunsrv)
on "any" Windows platform ... the SSH server there is already quite
reasonable, and Cygwin has a pre-built Ruby (among other similar scripting
languages); I've had the pleasure of setting up distributed build
environments through such mechanisms, so I'd not think puppet would be that
much of a stretch. I could be wrong, though...