Playbook woes using vsphere_guest on Mac OSX

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Hello all,

I’ve put together a little playbook to help our IT department deploy VMs using the vsphere_guest module.

The playbook works great - so long as we’re on a Linux system (running Ansible 1.8), but fails miserably when we try to run it on our MacBooks running OSX 10.10.3, Ansible 1.9.1, and pysphere 0.1.7.

Now that I’m typing this, I suppose the issue could have something to do with the Ansible version mis-match - but that’s something I can test when I get back to the office in the morning.

Anyway, the error I get running the playbook on a Mac is:

failed: [127.0.0.1] => {“failed”: true}
msg: parameters are required together: [‘from_template’, ‘resource_pool’, ‘template_src’]

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

I’ve tried running it as verbosely as possible looking for clues, but I’m lost … so the playbook is below (I welcome any suggestions for improvement), and thanks in advance!

Playbook:

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

vars_prompt:

  • name: “vcenter_user”
    prompt: “Enter your vcenter username”
    private: no

  • name: “user_pass”
    prompt: “Enter your vcenter password”
    private: yes

  • name: “vm_hostname”
    prompt: “Enter the hostname for this VM”
    private: no

  • name: “vm_memory”
    prompt: “Memory in MB”
    private: no
    default: “4048”

  • name: “vm_cores”
    prompt: “Number of Cores”
    private: no
    default: “2”

tasks:

  • vsphere_guest:
    vcenter_hostname: vcenter01.XXXX
    username: “{{ vcenter_user }}”
    password: “{{ user_pass }}”
    guest: “{{ vm_hostname }}”
    cluster: “CYC”
    resource_pool: “/Resources/XXXX-Default”
    state: powered_off
    vm_hw_version: “vmx-08”
    vm_extra_config:
    vcpu.hotadd: no
    mem.hotadd: no
    vm_disk:
    disk1:
    size_gb: 60
    type: thick
    datastore: “DataStore03”
    vm_nic:
    nic1:
    type: e1000
    network: “XXXXX”
    network_type: standard
    vm_hardware:
    memory_mb: “{{ vm_memory }}”
    num_cpus: “{{ vm_cores }}”
    osid: otherLinux64Guest
    scsi: lsi
    esxi:
    datacenter: XXX
    hostname: XXXXX