# Community VMware Deploy OVF With AWX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-vmware-deploy-ovf-with-awx/5720>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** vmware, awx\
**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-vmware-deploy-ovf-with-awx/5720 "2024-05-10T05:32:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Joe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-vmware-deploy-ovf-with-awx/5720/1 "2024-05-10T05:32:42Z")

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Hello, I am running AWX 22.3.

I am attempting to use community.vmware vmware\_deploy\_ovf to provision virtual machines to an ESXi host.

Can anyone confirm that they successfully used the `community.vmware.vmware\_deploy\_ovf module with AWX or Ansible Tower?

Thank you

```auto
"exception": "Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1715317037.6308992-45-196985842931468/AnsiballZ_vmware_deploy_ovf.py", line 107, in <module> 

ansiballz_main()
File "/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1715317037.6308992-45-196985842931468/AnsiballZ_vmware_deploy_ovf.py", line 99, in _ansiballz_main    
invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)  
File "/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1715317037.6308992-45-196985842931468/AnsiballZ_vmware_deploy_ovf.py", line 48, in invoke_module    

run_name=' __main__', alter_sys=True)  
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 170, in run_module    
mod_name, loader, code, fname = _get_module_details(mod_name)  

File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 113, in _get_module_details    
code = loader.get_code(mod_name)  
File "/tmp/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_deploy_ovf_payload_uVRPvF/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_deploy_ovf_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/vmware/plugins/modules/vmware_deploy_ovf.py", line 249    
raise ValueError("'{value}' is not a valid path")                                                   
SyntaxError: invalid syntax,

```

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**Author:** ![Denney-tech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/denney-tech/32/1556_2.png) [@Denney-tech](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Denney-tech)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-vmware-deploy-ovf-with-awx/5720/2 "2024-05-10T13:56:26Z")

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It would be helpful to know what `ansible --version` and what `ansible-galaxy collection list community.vmware` return, so we can compare them to what we might find in AWX 22.3.

Can you share your playbook yaml with us, and share the full stdout? (or a least, include the task name where you get the traceback). The error message seems to indicate that the given file path is invalid, which may mean it’s looking for it on AWX and it doesn’t exist there (especially if you’re delegating to localhost). It’s hard to say for sure what’s happening without seeing more context.

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Joe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-vmware-deploy-ovf-with-awx/5720/3 "2024-05-13T02:27:29Z")

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I was missing some python modules on the inventory host.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-vmware-deploy-ovf-with-awx/5720/4 "2024-06-12T02:28:18Z")

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