[BROOKLYN-160] No-op entity for Windows VMs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aled Sage
• Created: 04/Aug/15 23:07
• Updated: 20/Jun/17 15:26
• Resolved: 20/Jun/17 15:26

Description

A user is interested in Brooklyn provisioning a Windows VM from an AWS marketplace AMI, but where that Windows VM does not have WinRM enabled.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31241606/how-to-install-tibco-spotfire-with-apache-brooklyn

There is no convenient Windows no-op entity (the VanillaWindowsProcess currently always executes commands).

The workaround is to use EmptySoftwareProcess, which expects an SshMachineLocation, but with it configured to execute nothing (so it never notices that the SshMachineLocation is not ssh'able!)