vagrant-ie

This plugin contains a provisioning script that makes it possible to fully automate the process of launching IE inside a Windows box, headless or not.

The provisioning script does the following:

• Disables the firewall
• Creates a Network with a PRIVATE category for SSH communication
• Disables UAC
• Disables automatic updates
• Inserts a host-mapping entry to allow the box to reach your host

Once a box is provisioned, you can use the run-ie command provided by the plugin to launch the browser at any specific URL.

Please note that this plugin does NOT use WinRM for communication, only ssh.

Install the plugin:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-ie

Then amend your Vagrantfile configuration:

# Vagrantfile
require 'vagrant-ie'

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  # You MUST provision the assets of the plugin; this includes the PowerShell
  # and Task Scheduler task scripts needed for operation.
  config.vm.provision "file", source: VagrantIE.assets, destination: "c:/Users/IEUser"

  # Register the provisioner:
  config.vm.provision "shell", type: "vagrant-ie"
end

Then re-provision your node if it's an existing box:

vagrant up --provision

And finally, launch IE:

vagrant run-ie --kiosk http://www.google.com

Indicates the public IP to map as the upstream hostname in the box.

config.vm.provision "shell", type: "vagrant-ie" do |ie|
  ie.public_ip_addr = '192.168.1.1'
end

Defaults to: the public IP of the first non-loopback ethernet interface of the host.

The provisioning script automatically tries to infer your host's public IP and exposes it to the client. It will be mapped to the host name upstream, so for example if you have a service running on port 9876 of your host (e.g. Karma) you can visit it in IE like this:

vagrant run-ie http://upstream:9876/some_page.html

Thanks to the authors of the following resources which helped me set this up:

• https://github.com/danielmenezesbr/modernie-winrm
• https://gist.github.com/anthonysterling/7cb85670b36821122a4a
• https://gist.github.com/andreptb/57e388df5e881937e62a
• https://github.com/boxcutter/windows

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