- Software to install
- Ruby: http://rubyinstaller.org
- VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
- Git (for ssh client): https://git-scm.com/download/win (or Cygwin)
- Vagrant Tutorial: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/project_setup.html
- HashiCorp’s Atlas box catalog: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
- Link to download manually a box: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/designerror/boxes/windows-7/versions/1.0/providers/virtualbox.box
- Vagrant boxes cache folder: C:\Users\xxxx\.vagrant.d
- Sample vagrantfile (it is better creating vagrantfile with vagrant init)
1234567891011Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|config.vm.box = "designerror/windows-7"config.vm.synced_folder "../data", "/vagrant_data"config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|vb.gui = truevb.memory = "1024"endconfig.proxy.http = "http://proxy:8080/"config.proxy.https = "http://proxy:8080/"config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1"end - Commands to spawn Linux:
1234vagrant initvagrant box add hashicorp/precise64vagrant upvagrant ssh - Commands to spawn Windows 7:
1234vagrant initvagrant box add designerror/windows-7vagrant up# RDP into it (Default password: vagrant) - Useful commands:
123456vagrant global-status # Show status of all VMs.vagrant status # Show status of given VM.vagrant halt # Clear shutdown.vagrant suspend # Like hibernate.vagrant destroy # Delete VM.vagrant box list # List available boxes (base images).
How to improve PUTTY default blue colour?
Category: Window > Colours
- ANSI Blue: Red:74 Green:74 Blue:255
- ANSI Blue Bold: Red:140: Green:140 Blue:255
Result:
More tips: http://dag.wiee.rs/blog/content/improving-putty-settings-on-windows
Git first steps in Windows
This is the software used in Windows to have a GIT Client
- Install latest Git version (http://git-scm.com)
Ensure to remove Windows Explorer Integration as we should use TortoiseGit.
- Install latest TortoiseGit version (https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit)
Alternative to TortoiseGit is GitExtensions (No file icons in Windows Explorer, installs kdiff) - Install Beyond Compare 3.0 and configure TortoiseGit to use Beyond Compare
- Optionally install Visual Studio Tools for Git. for Visual Studio 2012-SP3 (Visual Studio 2013 includes Git tools by default)
- Optionally install PoshGit to have enhanced git coloured shell
- Optionally install Attlasian Source Tree