VMware Fusion Cookbook

A Chef cookbook for installing VMware Fusion.

Requirements

This cookbook consumes the dmg cookbook to support installing OS X packages.

Usage

Either add the default recipe to your run_list or use the included resource in
a recipe of your own.

Recipes

default

Installs VMware Fusion with optional license key and/or package source
attributes.

Attributes

default

An optional license key can be passed in to be configured during the Chef run:

default['vmware_fusion']['license'] = nil

An optional path to a VMWare Fusion .dmg file can be provided to install
instead of downloading the package from VMware's site.

default['vmware_fusion']['source'] = nil

Resources

vmware_fusion

A parent resource that wraps the app and config resources.

Syntax:

vmware_fusion 'default' do
  license 'abc123'
  source '/path/to/vmware.dmg'
  action :install
end

Actions:

Attributes:

vmware_fusion_app

Used to manage the installation of the VMware Fusion app.

Syntax:

vmware_fusion_app 'default' do
  source '/path/to/vmware.dmg'
  action :install
end

Actions:

Attributes:

vmware_fusion_config

An execute resource customized to handle the configuration of VMware Fusion
through its included initialization script.

Syntax:

vmware_fusion_config 'default' do
  license 'abc123'
  action :create
end

Actions:

Attributes:

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Add tests for the new feature; ensure they pass (rake)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

License & Authors

• Author: Jonathan Hartman j@p4nt5.com

Copyright 2015-2016, Jonathan Hartman

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.