# vmware\_guest:  Stop Customisation Running

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-guest-stop-customisation-running/28065>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware, ubuntu\
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-guest-stop-customisation-running/28065 "2018-07-17T08:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![ewoelkerling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/46a35a/32.png) [@ewoelkerling](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ewoelkerling)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-guest-stop-customisation-running/28065/1 "2018-07-17T08:01:40Z")

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Hi,

We’ve recently upgraded from Ansible 2.4-\>2.6 and make extensive us of the vmware\_guest module. Our previous installation _did not_ use the vmware customization component (variety of reasons), however after the upgrade this appears to run automatically, causing us build issues. There doesn’t appear to be an option to turn this off.

Does anyone have some magic to disable the vmware customization component from running? It would only run in 2.4 when customization was specified, so was rather easy to not use…

Any help would be appreciated!

OS is Ubuntu 16.04

ansible 2.6.1  
python version = 2.7.12 (default, Dec 4 2017, 14:50:18) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

pyVmomi : 6.7.0

VMware 6.0 U3

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