Embird Windows VM (Vagrant + VirtualBox + Ansible)

This workspace creates a reproducible Windows VM that installs Embird as a GUI app.

Prerequisites

Run setup:

./setup.sh

This installs:

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Ansible
• pywinrm (for Windows WinRM transport)
• Ansible Windows collections

Project Layout

• Vagrantfile: VM definition and provisioning wiring
• provision.yml: Idempotent Embird install playbook
• shared/: host-guest shared folder mounted as C:\\shared in VM

Add Embird Installer

Place your installer at:

• ./embird_installer.exe

The file is intentionally ignored by Git (.gitignore) because it is proprietary.

Boot and Provision

vagrant up

If the VM already exists and you only want to re-run provisioning:

vagrant provision

CLI Control

Start VM:

vagrant up

Open Embird with a pattern file inside the VM:

vagrant winrm -c '"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Embird\\embird.exe" "C:\\shared\\pattern.pes"'

Stop VM:

vagrant halt

Destroy VM:

vagrant destroy -f

Notes

• VM GUI is enabled (vb.gui = true) so you can interact with the Windows desktop.
• The playbook creates a startup shortcut so Embird launches when the VM user logs in.
• First boot of a Windows base box can take several minutes.