To setup little kitchen (development environment), I created 2 win2k8 R2 VMs one for workstation and another for node. For chef server I downloaded the CentOS 6.4 and installed on my box using virtualbox. To configure network between CentOS VM and the 2 windows VMs; I selected adapter 1 as Host-only Adapter and Adapter 2 as NAT for each of VMs network settings in VirtualBox. Steps I followed to install Chef 11 server 1. Download the relevant platform package from the opscode site; you can use curl/wget. If you don't have wget then you can install by running #yum install -y wget" #wget https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/el/6/x86_64/chef-server-11.0.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 2. Install the downloaded package using rpm or yum #rpm -Uvh chef-server-11.0.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 3. Please add the hostname and the ip address of your chef server to the /etc/hosts file, to know your hostname run the #hostname. 4. After installation configure the