Windows Support? What would it take?

[einsty]

Thanks so much for this little plugin. SO far it is working like a champ for those in our team who are on *nix operating systems but the Windows folks are left hanging in the wind.

I might be inclinded to help out on this task but not totally familiar w/ ruby, would this be as easy as extracting the path that is used in the .rb file several times into a variable that is determined in some fashion? Or is there more to it?

[agiledivider]

Should be working with version 0.0.8. please test and report any bugs. ;)

[frastel]

Tested it today with Vagrant 1.3.5 and a new box on a Windows 7 machine. Administration permissions are requested for creating the private network but not for editing the hosts file and thus I get an exception due to file permissions:

[default] adding to (C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts) : 192.168.33.10  testbox.dev  # VAGRANT: ac5758dff63ed84c1f702423e57bb034 (default) / d03c2d45-93da-4b25-9a65-939b6601ac52
ERROR warden: Error occurred: Permission denied - C:/Windows/system32/drivers/et
c/hosts

Using vagrant-hostsupdater-0.0.11.

[tz-earl]

I'm attempting to use vagrant 1.4.3 and ended up doing a manual workaround for permissions on the Windows 7 hosts file after getting the following error with "vagrant up".

“HostsUpdater.rb:82:in `initialize': Permission denied - C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (Errno::EACCES)”.

After giving “Full control” permissions to all users, the command ran to completion.

However, leaving the permissions like this might be a security hole for malware, so you might want to change them back to “Read; Read & Execute” only for all users.

This is not ideal, but it does get around the problem of the script crapping out.

[marcovtwout]

Isn't there a nice way to automatically prompt the user for administrator permissions when attempting to write to the hosts file?

[rocpatel]

It looks like there are 2 issues here. The first is that File.writable? is not accurately reflecting that the user does not have permission to the file. This looks like a bug with ruby https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4712. Also, was wondering if we could just use the runas command for windows. I can submit a PR that gets around the File.writable? bug by using sudo when the platform is windows, and change the sudo method to use runas for windows.