# VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python

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**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612 "2021-02-11T20:12:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/1 "2021-02-11T20:12:53Z")

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Hi,

Anyone can suggest on below will help. I am getting error when tried to install VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python on centos7

Below is my server details

Doc i am following is

[https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python#installing-required-python-packages](https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python#installing-required-python-packages)

cat /etc/redhat-release  
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

python --version  
Python 2.7.5

yum install -y python-pip  
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror  
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

- base: mirrors.vcea.wsu.edu
- centos-sclo-rh: [mirror.keystealth.org](http://mirror.keystealth.org)
- epel: [mirror.prgmr.com](http://mirror.prgmr.com)
- extras: [mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net](http://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net)
- updates: [mirror.centos.lax1.serverforge.org](http://mirror.centos.lax1.serverforge.org)  
Package python2-pip-8.1.2-14.el7.noarch already installed and latest version  
Nothing to do

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/2 "2021-02-11T20:33:03Z")

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Even below fails

pip install --upgrade pyvmomi

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/bin/pip”, line 9, in   
load\_entry\_point(‘pip==21.0.1’, ‘console\_scripts’, ‘pip’)()  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg\_resources.py”, line 378, in load\_entry\_point  
return get\_distribution(dist).load\_entry\_point(group, name)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg\_resources.py”, line 2566, in load\_entry\_point  
return ep.load()  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg\_resources.py”, line 2260, in load  
entry = **import** (self.module\_name, globals(),globals(), [‘ **name** ’])  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/\_internal/cli/main.py”, line 60  
sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}")  
^  
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/3 "2021-02-11T21:43:57Z")

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Also tried below :

mkdir ansible-vmware-project  
cd ansible-vmware-project/  
git clone [https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git](https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git)  
python3 -m venv venv  
source venv/bin/activate  
cd vsphere-automation-sdk-python

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools  
Collecting pip  
Downloading [https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fe/ef/60d7ba03b5c442309ef42e7d69959f73aacccd0d86008362a681c4698e83/pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl](https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fe/ef/60d7ba03b5c442309ef42e7d69959f73aacccd0d86008362a681c4698e83/pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl) (1.5MB)  
100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.5MB 990kB/s  
Collecting setuptools  
Downloading [https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/15/0e/255e3d57965f318973e417d5b7034223f1223de500d91b945ddfaef42a37/setuptools-53.0.0-py3-none-any.whl](https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/15/0e/255e3d57965f318973e417d5b7034223f1223de500d91b945ddfaef42a37/setuptools-53.0.0-py3-none-any.whl) (784kB)  
100% |████████████████████████████████| 788kB 2.0MB/s  
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools  
Found existing installation: pip 9.0.1  
Uninstalling pip-9.0.1:  
Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.1  
Found existing installation: setuptools 36.5.0  
Uninstalling setuptools-36.5.0:  
Successfully uninstalled setuptools-36.5.0  
Successfully installed pip-21.0.1 setuptools-53.0.0

pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git  
Collecting git+https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git  
Cloning [https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git](https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git) to /tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i  
Running command git clone -q [https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git](https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git) /tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/vapi-runtime/vapi\_runtime-2.19.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/vapi-client-bindings/vapi\_client\_bindings-3.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/vapi-common-client/vapi\_common\_client-2.19.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/vmc-client-bindings/vmc\_client\_bindings-1.33.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/nsx-python-sdk/nsx\_python\_sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/nsx-policy-python-sdk/nsx\_policy\_python\_sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/nsx-vmc-policy-python-sdk/nsx\_vmc\_policy\_python\_sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/nsx-vmc-aws-integration-python-sdk/nsx\_vmc\_aws\_integration\_python\_sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Processing //tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/vmc-draas-client-bindings/vmc\_draas\_client\_bindings-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl  
Collecting lxml\>=4.3.0  
Downloading lxml-4.6.2-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1\_x86\_64.whl (5.5 MB)

> ████████████████████████████████| 5.5 MB 16.7 MB/s  
> Collecting pyVmomi\>=6.7  
> Downloading pyvmomi-7.0.1.tar.gz (584 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 584 kB 93.1 MB/s  
> Collecting suds-jurko  
> Downloading suds-jurko-0.6.zip (255 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 255 kB 81.6 MB/s  
> Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from vapi-client-bindings@ file://localhost//tmp/pip-req-build-3ciikd1i/lib/vapi-client-bindings/vapi\_client\_bindings-3.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl-\>vSphere-Automation-SDK==1.47.0) (53.0.0)  
> Collecting pyOpenSSL\>=18.0.0  
> Downloading pyOpenSSL-20.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (54 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 54 kB 7.2 MB/s  
> Collecting six\>=1.12  
> Downloading six-1.15.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (10 kB)  
> Collecting requests\>=2.21.0  
> Downloading requests-2.25.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 61 kB 20.6 MB/s  
> Collecting cryptography\>=3.2  
> Downloading cryptography-3.4.4-cp36-abi3-manylinux2014\_x86\_64.whl (3.2 MB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 3.2 MB 85.7 MB/s  
> Collecting cffi\>=1.12  
> Downloading cffi-1.14.5-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1\_x86\_64.whl (401 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 401 kB 77.6 MB/s  
> Collecting pycparser  
> Downloading pycparser-2.20-py2.py3-none-any.whl (112 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 112 kB 105.6 MB/s  
> Collecting certifi\>=2017.4.17  
> Downloading certifi-2020.12.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (147 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 147 kB 95.7 MB/s  
> Collecting chardet\<5,\>=3.0.2  
> Downloading chardet-4.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (178 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 178 kB 88.0 MB/s  
> Collecting idna\<3,\>=2.5  
> Downloading idna-2.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 58 kB 15.8 MB/s  
> Collecting urllib3\<1.27,\>=1.21.1  
> Downloading urllib3-1.26.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (137 kB)  
> ████████████████████████████████| 137 kB 100.6 MB/s  
> Using legacy ‘setup.py install’ for vSphere-Automation-SDK, since package ‘wheel’ is not installed.  
> Using legacy ‘setup.py install’ for pyVmomi, since package ‘wheel’ is not installed.  
> Using legacy ‘setup.py install’ for suds-jurko, since package ‘wheel’ is not installed.  
> Installing collected packages: pycparser, cffi, urllib3, six, idna, cryptography, chardet, certifi, requests, pyOpenSSL, vapi-runtime, vapi-common-client, vmc-draas-client-bindings, vmc-client-bindings, vapi-client-bindings, suds-jurko, pyVmomi, nsx-vmc-policy-python-sdk, nsx-vmc-aws-integration-python-sdk, nsx-python-sdk, nsx-policy-python-sdk, lxml, vSphere-Automation-SDK  
> Running setup.py install for suds-jurko … done  
> Running setup.py install for pyVmomi … done  
> Running setup.py install for vSphere-Automation-SDK … done  
> Successfully installed certifi-2020.12.5 cffi-1.14.5 chardet-4.0.0 cryptography-3.4.4 idna-2.10 lxml-4.6.2 nsx-policy-python-sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625 nsx-python-sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625 nsx-vmc-aws-integration-python-sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625 nsx-vmc-policy-python-sdk-3.0.2.0.0.16837625 pyOpenSSL-20.0.1 pyVmomi-7.0.1 pycparser-2.20 requests-2.25.1 six-1.15.0 suds-jurko-0.6 urllib3-1.26.3 vSphere-Automation-SDK-1.47.0 vapi-client-bindings-3.5.0 vapi-common-client-2.19.0 vapi-runtime-2.19.0 vmc-client-bindings-1.33.0 vmc-draas-client-bindings-1.17.0

export PYTHONPATH=${PWD}:$PYTHONPATH

ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware  
Process install dependency map  
Starting collection install process  
Installing ‘community.vmware:1.7.0’ to ‘/root/.ansible/collections/ansible\_collections/community/vmware’

ansible-inventory --list -i DC-inv-ALL-vmware.yml  
[WARNING]: \* Failed to parse /root/ansible-vmware-project/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/playbooks/DC-inv-ALL-vmware.yml with auto plugin: Please install “PyVmomi” Python module  
as this is required for VMware Guest dynamic inventory plugin.  
[WARNING]: \* Failed to parse /root/ansible-vmware-project/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/playbooks/DC-inv-ALL-vmware.yml with yaml plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file, not  
YAML inventory  
[WARNING]: \* Failed to parse /root/ansible-vmware-project/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/playbooks/DC-inv-ALL-vmware.yml with ini plugin: Invalid host pattern ‘plugin:’ supplied,  
ending in ‘:’ is not allowed, this character is reserved to provide a port.  
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /root/ansible-vmware-project/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/playbooks/DC-inv-ALL-vmware.yml as an inventory source  
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available  
{  
“\_meta”: {  
“hostvars”: {}  
},  
“all”: {  
“children”: [  
“ungrouped”  
]  
}  
}

BTW

pip install pyvmomi  
Requirement already satisfied: pyvmomi in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (7.0.1)  
Requirement already satisfied: requests\>=2.3.0 in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pyvmomi) (2.25.1)  
Requirement already satisfied: six\>=1.7.3 in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pyvmomi) (1.15.0)  
Requirement already satisfied: certifi\>=2017.4.17 in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests\>=2.3.0-\>pyvmomi) (2020.12.5)  
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3\<1.27,\>=1.21.1 in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests\>=2.3.0-\>pyvmomi) (1.26.3)  
Requirement already satisfied: chardet\<5,\>=3.0.2 in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests\>=2.3.0-\>pyvmomi) (4.0.0)  
Requirement already satisfied: idna\<3,\>=2.5 in /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests\>=2.3.0-\>pyvmomi) (2.10)

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**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/4 "2021-02-11T21:56:05Z")

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ansible --version  
ansible 2.9.17  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = [u’/root/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]  
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible  
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible  
python version = 2.7.5 (default, Nov 16 2020, 22:23:17) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)]

pip show pyvmomi  
Name: pyvmomi  
Version: 7.0.1  
Summary: VMware vSphere Python SDK  
Home-page: [https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi](https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi)  
Author: VMware, Inc.  
Author-email: [jhu@vmware.com](mailto:jhu@vmware.com)  
License: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License  
Location: /root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages  
Requires: requests, six  
Required-by: vSphere-Automation-SDK

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64144](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64144)

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**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/5 "2021-02-11T21:59:33Z")

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Ansible is using Python binary from /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible  
whereas Pyvmomi is installed here - /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages

In my case :

ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible

Pyvmomi –

/root/ansible-vmware-project/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Can you please check the environment ??

Not sure about the above … tried few rsync … no luck… @Abhijit any comment Please

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/6 "2021-02-11T22:25:46Z")

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Clearly you’ve mixed everything up. Multiple python3, python2, pips, and individual venvs, even running as root.

Perhaps start with a fresh OS, and just a python3 virtualenv?

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**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/7 "2021-02-11T22:32:38Z")

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Thanks for the reply… Yes i already tested with Ubuntu20.04 & it works fine… the issue i have is my actual prod ansible server still runs as CentOS7 which natively supports Pytrhon2x … so trying these test on a test box running centos7

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**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vsphere-automation-sdk-for-python/34612/8 "2021-02-12T00:16:10Z")

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i did many things …lost track … anyone wants to know Please check the freenode channel

removed ansible & installed with pip

/usr/local/bin/ansible --version  
ansible 2.10.5  
config file = None  
configured module search path = [‘/root/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]  
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible  
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible  
python version = 3.7.9 (default, Feb 11 2021, 15:13:23) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)]

seems ok now