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]

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.

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[Russell Van Tassell]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Jacob Helwig <ja...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

On 2011-11-21 12:50 , Jeff Sussna wrote:
> 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.

[Jeff Sussna]

OK, I tried again with the latest MSI (http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/windows/puppet-2.7.12.msi) and puppet and facter both work just fine. Very cool!

I should note that I'm running puppet in standalone mode, and not trying to connect to a master.

[Moses Mendoza]

Hi Jeff,

The latest stable msi is actually Puppet 2.7.18 -
http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/windows/puppet-2.7.18.msi

It includes many Windows improvements since 2.7.12.

Cheers,
Moses

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[Jeff Sussna]

Grr...it would help if I were paying attention and didn't just assume the list was sorted in most-recent order :-(.

Since I don't seem to be able to find my way around unchaperoned, are there release notes for the improvements you mention?

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Windows support better in newer versions of Puppet. I run 2.7.18 on XP nodes with no issues. It's not officially supported though.

hth,

Adam

[Moses Mendoza]

Hey Jeff,

You can check out the release notes here:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Release_Notes .
They're not split out by platform but rather Puppet version. Some of
the Windows improvements I was thinking of, particularly around the
package provider, are actually in the 2.7.19 RC, which, with any luck,
will go final next week. However, as Adam points out, Windows XP isn't
a supported platform, so your results may vary...

> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/DFtfU0zxdRQJ.

[Jeff Sussna]

Understood about XP support. All machines in my environment are either Win7 or Server 2003...except mine :-(.