# Does vmware\_guest have an idempotency issue or do I hold it wrong?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-vmware-guest-have-an-idempotency-issue-or-do-i-hold-it-wrong/36385>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-vmware-guest-have-an-idempotency-issue-or-do-i-hold-it-wrong/36385 "2022-03-01T10:16:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jorg\_Kastning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jorg\_Kastning](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jorg_Kastning)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-vmware-guest-have-an-idempotency-issue-or-do-i-hold-it-wrong/36385/1 "2022-03-01T10:16:36Z")

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Hey folks,

I’m using the vmware\_guest module to clone virtual machines (VMs) from a template and customizing them. When running the same playbook with the same parameters/values again while the VMs already exist I would expect that there is nothing to do and task status would just be ‘OK’. Instead the task status is ‘Changed’ every time I run the playbook.

Now, I’m in doubt wether I hold it wrong or is vmware\_guest not idempotent?

Here are my `{defaults,tasks}/main.yml`, playbook and output of the playbook run:

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**Author:** ![Jorg\_Kastning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jorg\_Kastning](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jorg_Kastning)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-vmware-guest-have-an-idempotency-issue-or-do-i-hold-it-wrong/36385/2 "2022-07-14T20:13:17Z")

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Hi there,  
I would like to bring this up again. Does somebody have an idea on this?