# Aerospike and Node.js on windows VM

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347>\
**Category:** Node.js Client\
**Created:** [August 30, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347 "2014-08-30T12:39:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![HungryHorace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@HungryHorace](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/HungryHorace)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347/1 "2014-08-30T12:39:20Z")

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Hi,

I’m on windows so I’ve got my Virtual Box with Centos and Aerospike all running nicely. I can’t run node from windows though due to the aerospike node.js module dependency. I’ll therefore need to switch my node development to Centos but as a windows person my knowledge here on linux setup is poor. Centos has no GUI as provided so I tried this - [http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/01/installing-gnome-gui-centos-6-5/](http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/01/installing-gnome-gui-centos-6-5/) I got stuck at step 2 as the file is readonly though…

Could any linux experts point me in the right direction please ? 😄

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**Author:** ![anshu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/anshu/32/27_2.png) [@anshu](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/anshu)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347/2 "2014-08-31T06:27:49Z")

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hi,

Are you trying to edit the file as root ? /etc/inittab can only be edited by root user (or as a user with sudo capabilities).

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**Author:** ![HungryHorace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@HungryHorace](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/HungryHorace)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347/3 "2014-09-01T17:01:40Z")

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Ah yes. Silly me. I’ve got the file edited now and saved.

(for any windows readers a ‘sudo’ prefix is required to act as root and ‘:wq’ saves the file).

‘sudo init 6’ was used to reboot the machine. (I’m not convinced it actually did). I rebooted via Virtualbox anyway and have confirmed the file is correctly saved but still no GUI.

Would it be possible to add a Vagrant box with a GUI, node and aerospike for windows users to use. I’m going no where with this at the moment … ☹

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**Author:** ![jerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jerry](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/jerry)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347/4 "2014-09-04T02:03:53Z")

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Hi,

I’ll look into this and see what I can do.

Jerry

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**Author:** ![lucien](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/lucien/32/2065_2.png) [@lucien](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/lucien)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-and-node-js-on-windows-vm/347/5 "2014-09-04T17:33:09Z")

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Are you currently running Aerospike on Vagrant as described here:

[http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/vagrant/win/](http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/vagrant/win/)

or do you use a fresh image on virtual box?

For a fresh image on virtual box, you can download the desktop iso for either Ubuntu or Centos and install Aerospike following one of these links.

[http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/ubuntu/](http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/ubuntu/)

or

[http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/el6/](http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/el6/)

–Lucien