Using SlapOS in the Windows

Go to "http://cygwin.com/" and click on "Install Cygwin Now!". This will download a GUI installer called setup.exe which can be run to download a complete cygwin installation via the internet. Follow the instructions on each screen to install Cygwin.

The Root Directory for Cygwin (default C:\cygwin) will become / within your Cygwin installation. You must have write access to the parent directory, and any ACLs on the parent directory will determine access to installed files.

By default, setup.exe will install only the packages in the Base category and their dependencies, resulting in a minimal Cygwin installation. We need choose the packages required by SlapOS, see Appendix A, Cygwin Required Packages List. Since setup.exe automatically selects dependencies, be careful not to unselect any required packages.

You can install cygwin in the command console either:

Double click the desktop icon "Cygwin" or C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat (Assume the cygwin root directory is C:\cygwin). A cygwin box will open, the following commands are typed in this box.

$ echo "export CYGWIN=server" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ cygrunsrv --install cygslapos --path /usr/sbin/cygserver
$ sed -i -e "s/4\.3\.4/4.5.3/g" /usr/bin/libtool

$ mkdir -p /opt/slapos
$ mkdir -p /opt/download-cache
$ cd /opt/slapos
$ echo "[buildout]
extends = http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/slapos.git/blob_plain/refs/tags/cygwin:/component/slapos/buildout.cfg
download-cache = /opt/download-cache
prefix = ${buildout:directory}
" > buildout.cfg 
$ python -S -c 'import urllib2;print urllib2.urlopen("http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/slapos.core.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/bootstrap.py").read()' > bootstrap.py
$ python -S bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

Now we need patch slapos.core for supporting cygwin, after these code are merged, it don't need.

$ wget http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/slapos.git/blob_plain/refs/tags/cygwin:/component/cygwin/cygwin-slapos-core-format.patch
$ wget http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/slapos.git/blob_plain/refs/tags/cygwin:/component/cygwin/cygwin-slapos-core-env-none.patch
$ cd eggs/slapos.core-0.33.1-py2.7.egg/slapos
$ patch -p1 < /opt/slapos/cygwin-slapos-core-format.patch
$ patch -p1 < /opt/slapos/cygwin-slapos-env-none.patch

If native IPv6 is available, skip this section. Otherwise be sure you have installed IPv6 by the command:

$ netsh interface ipv6 install

Download openvpn windows installer, for example, openvpn-2.2.1-install.exe, then install openvpn. By default, it installed at C:\Program Files\OpenVPN

Copy required files of openvpn to /opt/openvpn and edit client.ovpn

$ mkdir -p /opt/openvpn
$ cd /opt/openvpn
$ cp "C:/Program Files/OpenVPN/bin/*" /opt/openvpn
$ cp -a "C:/Program Files/OpenVPN/config" /opt/openvpn
$ chmod 755 *.exe

$ cd config
$ wget http://www.slapos.org/vifib-ca.crt/getData  -O ca.crt
$ http://www.slapos.org/vifib-client.crt/getData -O client-vifib.crt
$ wget http://www.slapos.org/vifib-client.key/getData -O client-vifib.key
$ mv client.ovpn vifib.ovpn
$ vi vifib.ovpn
# Edit the following options
dev tap
proto tcp
remote 176.31.103.87 443
ca ca.crt
cert client-vifib.crt
key client-vifib.key

Assume we have registered a server which id is 'COMP-161', and saved its key and certificate files in the home directory. So we can use script 'configure.sh' to do all the configuration.

$ mkdir -p /etc/slapos/ssl
$ mkdir -p /etc/slapos/ssl/partition_pki
$ cd /
$ wget http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/slapos.git/blob_plain/refs/tags/cygwin:/component/cygwin/configure.sh 
$ /configure.sh COMP-161 ~/computer.key ~/computer.crt

Finally, run slapformat

$ cd /opt/slapos
$ bin/slapformat -c --now /etc/slapos/slapos.cfg