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It seems like most of the development around CloudFoundry and bosh happen on Linux or Mac. Getting things up and running in Windows was a real challenge. Below is how I worked things out. **Make sure you have a modern processor that supports all virtualization technologies, such as VTx and extended paging. Aside from the deviations mentioned below, I’m following the steps documented at https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite Changes to Vagrantfile I’m using VirtualBox on Windows 7. To begin with, I modified the Vagrantfile to create two VMs rather than a single VM. The first is......

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Recently I’ve been accessing a lot of network resources from Windows. This is pretty easy in principle, but can become complicated when there are various credentials available, and each set of credentials provides a different level of access. For example, a single share may have two different levels of access based on two unique usernames and their corresponding passwords. The first provides read only access, the second provides full write access. There may be times that it’s desirable to be connected read only and other cases where you require full write access. That’s......

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