Github user aledsage commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-docs/pull/66#discussion_r63842330
--- Diff: guide/yaml/winrm/index.md ---
@@ -271,6 +271,16 @@ config like `pre.install.reboot.required` and
`install.reboot.required`. If requ
installation commands can be split between the pre-install, install and
post-install phases
in order to do a reboot at the appropriate point of the VM setup.
+We Strongly recommend to **write blueprints in a way that they do NOT
restart automatically windows**
+
+Using install commands that restart the Operating System automatically
through a forked process
+will make the blueprint to behave inconsistently and report wrongly
failure.
+
+To avoid such cases manually call the command `shutdown /r` or the
powershell one `Restart-Computer`.
--- End diff --
See the config option "install.reboot.required". That handles reboot better
than executing this command directly.
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