Vmware_guest

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Hi all,

I recently discovered the module VMware_guest for ansible. I would like to know how it’s work. Indeed I installed ansible version 2.3.2.0. and the module python 2.7.6 and PyVmomi.
And when I run a ansible-playbook like this :

  • name: Gather all registered virtual machines
    local_action:
    module: vmware_vm_facts
    hostname: esxi_or_vcenter_ip_or_hostname
    username: username
    password: password

And when I run the playbook I see the following message :

ERROR! ‘local_action’ is not a valid attribute for a Play
The error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/Vmware.yml’: line 1, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:

  • name: Gather all registered virtual machines
    ^ here

do I forgot Something ?

Best Regards,

2

What you have is a task that belongs to a tasks section
You need to put this in the context of a play see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_intro.html#playbook-language-example

Phil

3

Hi,

Thanks for you reply. I discovered this soft recently so I don’t realy have the knowledge to complete my YML.
I treid to search how I can delete a VM on VMware and I create this Playbook with your advice :

  • hosts: all
    gather_facts: false
    connection: local
    vars_prompt :
  • name: “vsphere_password”
    prompt: “vSphere Password”
  • name: “notes”
    prompt: “VM notes”
    private: no
    default: “Deployed with ansible”
    tasks:
  • vmware_guest:
    hostname: ‘{{ vsphere_host }}’
    username: ‘{{ vsphere_user }}’
    password: ‘{{ vsphere_password }}’
    uuid: 421e4592-c069-924d-ce20-7e7533fab926
    state: absent

But it seems that it missing Something. Because it doesn’t work.
Do you have an example of completed Playbook to do that ?

4

What error do you get when it doesn’t work?

It looks like you are attempting to delete a vm via its uuid. Has the vm already been deleted?

There are other examples here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vmware_guest_module.html

I suggest removing the vars_prompt stuff and hard coding values until you have the vmware_guest module doing something.

Also worth using the debug module to display the contents of any vars you are creating so that you can be sure that they contain values that you expect, like this.

  • name: show notes
    debug:
    var: notes

Hope this helps,

Jon

5

Hi Jonh,

I tried with this :

  • hosts: all
    gather_facts: false
    connection: local
    tasks:
  • name: show notes
    debug:
    var: notes
  • vmware_guest:
    hostname: 10.112.100.60
    username: root
    password: password
    uuid: 564d0c49-a688-b277-68b8-09848a0c4ca4
    state: absent

but when I run this playbook I have this error messagee :

ERROR! conflicting action statements: hostname, vmware_guest
The error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/new.yml’: line 8, column 5, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
var: notes

  • vmware_guest:
    ^ here

The error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/new.yml’: line 8, column 5, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
var: notes

  • vmware_guest:
    ^ here

Regards,