I don't know exactly what the Jenkins plugin executes in the node, but apart from the SSH connection, there are several scripts that assume a bash shell in it.
Adding support for jclouds+Windows would require more than installing an SSH server in the guest. As you found, there was a work started to add support for Overthere as a driver, to be able to connect to Windows nodes using WinRM, but that never got completed, and now the pull request is dead :( Being able to bypass the issue will depend on what the Jenkins plugin tries to run in the node. On 9 December 2013 14:14, Johan Cronjé <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 1. Does the above mean that it is impossible to use Jenkins + >>> jclouds to spin up Windows instances? >> >> Would you be able to try with a Windows box that has an SSH server >> running to see if you can get any further..? > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for the replies. > I have logged an issue against the plugin (well, not really an 'issue' but > anyway...) > I have also tried with OpenSSH Windows 3.8.1 to no avail, but since it's so > very old I'm not sure if that is where the issue lies... > Thanks anyway. > > Johan
