Chef-solo provisioning on Windows

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This issue was originally opened by @Chan9390 as hashicorp/packer#5220. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Chef solo isn't installing on Windows Server 2008 R2. Other provisioning like shell and powershell are working fine, but when it comes to chef-solo provisioning, the inbuilt installation script gets stuck.

I tried the following workarounds:

• Overriding the inbuilt command with install_command. Doesnt work
• Have a shell provisioning with installation command. Doesnt work
• Have a powershell provisioning with installation command. Doesnt work

The guest VM is Windows Server 2008 R2. It has dotNet 4.5 and Windows Management Framework 5.0 installed (Powershell v5 is present).

• Packer version : Tested with 1.0.0 and 1.0.3

• Host platform : Ubuntu 16.04

• End output from logs:

  2017/08/04 21:10:01 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting provisioner chef-solo
  2017/08/04 21:10:01 ui: ==> virtualbox-iso: Provisioning with chef-solo
  2017/08/04 21:10:01 ui:     virtualbox-iso: Installing Chef...
  2017/08/04 21:10:01 packer: 2017/08/04 21:10:01 opening new ssh session
  2017/08/04 21:10:01 packer: 2017/08/04 21:10:01 starting remote command: powershell.exe -Command ". { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex; Install-Project"
  2017/08/04 21:10:22 ui:     virtualbox-iso:
  2017/08/04 21:10:22 ui:     virtualbox-iso: ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands
  2017/08/04 21:10:22 ui:     virtualbox-iso: ---------- -------    ----                                ----------------
  2017/08/04 21:10:22 ui:     virtualbox-iso: Script     0.0        Omnitruck                           {Get-ProjectMetada...
  

• Provisioning script:

    {
      "type": "chef-solo",
      "guest_os_type": "windows",
      "cookbook_paths": ["chef/cookbooks"],
      "run_list": [
        "recipe[metasploitable::root_certs]",
        "recipe[metasploitable::vagrant_ssh]",
        "recipe[metasploitable::disable_auto_logon]",
        "recipe[metasploitable::enable_rdp]"
      ]
    },
  

Look at the entire script here.