Ansible playbook to deploy a VM in a PXEBOOT envrionment

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My present Ansible playbook can spin-up a VM in the interactive Ubuntu installation (e.g. waiting for you to select the language on the first screen), but I’ve not been able to get it instead to go to the PXEBOOT/KICKSTART server on the same network. The P/K works fine when F12 is pressed and it goes off and builds a complete server of any kind on my stack but I want to be able to initiate that with a transformation of the Ansible playbook below and have no idea how to do it after a pretty thorough review of documents on the Internet. If anyone knows how this can be accomplished and could comment, I’d sure appreciate it.

  • hosts: 127.0.0.1
    connection: local
    user: root
    sudo: false
    gather_facts: false
    serial: 1

tasks:

  • vsphere_guest:
    vcenter_hostname: sna-vcsa.SOMEDOMAIN.com
    username: ansible
    password: SOMEPASSWORD
    guest: SOMEHOSTNAME
    state: powered_on
    vm_extra_config:
    vcpu.hotadd: yes
    mem.hotadd: yes
    vm_disk:
    disk1:
    size_gb: 100
    type: thin
    datastore: SOMEDATASTORE
    vm_nic:
    nic1:
    type: vmxnet3
    network: SOMENETWORK
    network_type: standard
    vm_hardware:
    memory_mb: 2048
    num_cpus: 2
    osid: ubuntu64Guest
    scsi: paravirtual
    vm_cdrom:
    type: “iso”
    iso_path: “SOMEISODATASTORE/ISO/ubuntu-14.04.3-server-amd64.iso”
    esxi:
    datacenter: SNA
    hostname: sna1.SOMEDOMAIN.com