# vSphere guest support for Guest Customizations.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/vsphere-guest-support-for-guest-customizations/22060>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [July 20, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vsphere-guest-support-for-guest-customizations/22060 "2016-07-20T15:46:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![John\_Smith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@John\_Smith1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Smith1)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vsphere-guest-support-for-guest-customizations/22060/1 "2016-07-20T15:46:53Z")

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Hello, is there any chance that the vSphere\_guest module will add support for Guest Customization?

For instance in vCenter for Windows VMs we can create different customization profiles that allow us to setup the hostname, static ip, license file, reset the windows SID etc…  
Basically when you create a new VM from template or what ever you can tell vSphere to run sysprep on Windows box based on the customization profile.

Example Vagrant plugin you have customization\_spec\_name  
So you can reference any of the customization profiles.

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vsphere-guest-support-for-guest-customizations/22060/2 "2016-07-22T14:59:55Z")

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That’s something I would value too.  
I was curious whether this is possible, and it looks like it is (now that vsphere\_guest has apparently moved to pyvmomi - I found some old discussion and a reference to this custom module which appears to have support for Guest Customizations

[https://github.com/whereismyjetpack/ansible\_vcenter\_module](https://github.com/whereismyjetpack/ansible_vcenter_module)

Jon