# Ansible installation error on windows 10

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-error-on-windows-10/3930>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** windows, collections, ansible-lint\
**Created:** [February 17, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-error-on-windows-10/3930 "2024-02-17T14:32:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![amitkumars1985](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/amitkumars1985/32/2346_2.png) [@amitkumars1985](https://forum.ansible.com/u/amitkumars1985)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-error-on-windows-10/3930/1 "2024-02-17T14:32:01Z")

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I am getting below strange error after installing ansible on windows 10.

ansible  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “”, line 198, in _run\_module\_as\_main  
File “”, line 88, in run\_code  
File "C:\Tools\Python312\Scripts\ansible.exe\_main.py", line 4, in   
File "C:\Tools\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ansible\cli\_init_.py", line 42, in   
check\_blocking\_io()  
File “C:\Tools\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ansible\cli\__init_\_.py”, line 34, in check\_blocking\_io  
if not os.get\_blocking(fd):  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
OSError: [WinError 1] Incorrect function

Below is the output of python version and installed modules

> python --version  
> Python 3.12.2

> pip list  
> Package Version

* * *

ansible-compat 4.1.11  
ansible-core 2.16.3  
ansible-lint 6.8.7  
argcomplete 3.2.2  
attrs 23.2.0  
black 24.2.0  
bracex 2.4  
cffi 1.16.0  
click 8.1.7  
colorama 0.4.6  
cryptography 42.0.3  
filelock 3.13.1  
Jinja2 3.1.3  
jsonschema 4.21.1  
jsonschema-specifications 2023.12.1  
markdown-it-py 3.0.0  
MarkupSafe 2.1.5  
mdurl 0.1.2  
mypy-extensions 1.0.0  
packaging 23.2  
pathspec 0.12.1  
pip 24.0  
platformdirs 4.2.0  
pycparser 2.21  
Pygments 2.17.2  
PyYAML 6.0.1  
referencing 0.33.0  
resolvelib 1.0.1  
rich 13.7.0  
rpds-py 0.18.0  
ruamel.yaml 0.17.40  
ruamel.yaml.clib 0.2.8  
subprocess-tee 0.4.1  
wcmatch 8.5  
yamllint 1.35.1

Am I doing anything wrong. Can someone help with it ?

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**Author:** ![kurokobo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kurokobo/32/182_2.png) [@kurokobo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kurokobo)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-error-on-windows-10/3930/2 "2024-02-17T14:37:22Z")

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Hi, Ansible can manage Windows based hosts, but installing Ansible on Windows without WSL is not supported.

Refer to the docs:

> For your _control_ node (the machine that runs Ansible), you can use nearly any UNIX-like machine with Python installed. This includes Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, macOS, BSDs, and Windows under a [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about). Windows without WSL is not natively supported as a control node; see [Matt Davis’ blog post](http://blog.rolpdog.com/2020/03/why-no-ansible-controller-for-windows.html) for more information.  
> [Installing Ansible — Ansible Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#control-node-requirements)

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**Author:** ![amitkumars1985](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/amitkumars1985/32/2346_2.png) [@amitkumars1985](https://forum.ansible.com/u/amitkumars1985)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-error-on-windows-10/3930/3 "2024-02-18T05:33:34Z")

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Thanks for reply @kurokobo …!!

I do know that windows server can’t act as controller for ansible.  
I am using VS Code to write ansible playbooks and it requires ansible plugin to be installed which I did as well but keep on getting ansible related errors. I tried installing it and got this error.

Is there any way to make ansible work for development through VS Code

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**Author:** ![kurokobo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kurokobo/32/182_2.png) [@kurokobo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kurokobo)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-error-on-windows-10/3930/4 "2024-02-18T07:45:48Z")

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Hi, the extension page also has helpful note for Windows users:

> ## Requirements
> 
> - [Ansible 2.9+](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/index.html)
> - [Ansible Lint](https://ansible-lint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (required, unless you disable linter support; install without `yamllint`)
> 
> **For Windows users, this extension works perfectly well with extensions such as `Remote - WSL` and `Remote - Containers`.**  
> [Ansible - Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.ansible)

Therefore, to use Ansible extension with VSCode on Windows, there should be UNIX-like environment as well, since it requres Ansible 2.9+ that can’t be installed on Windows natively.  
If you are familier (or want to be so) with WSL or Podman on Windows, you can use it with VSCode over `Remote - WSL` or `Remote - Containers`.

Alternatively, I personally like to use `Remote - SSH` with VSCode to connect to controller node for Ansible and develop directly on the controller.