# vmware\_guest\_network - removing NIC - task completes but does not remove NIC

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-guest-network-removing-nic-task-completes-but-does-not-remove-nic/36714>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [June 10, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-guest-network-removing-nic-task-completes-but-does-not-remove-nic/36714 "2022-06-10T14:59:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jorge\_Rua1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@Jorge\_Rua1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jorge_Rua1)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-guest-network-removing-nic-task-completes-but-does-not-remove-nic/36714/1 "2022-06-10T14:59:23Z")

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I’d encourage you to this the other way around. First of all not sure why the ova is still using e1000 but that’s a separate issue. I’d say to modify your ova and reupload it with the vmxnet3 adapter already set up.  
And the end of the day an ova is just a tar file with some metadata.  
Give it a try and let me know.