ansible / ansible.builtin / v2.9.27 / inventory / virtualbox virtualbox inventory source Authors: unknownansible.builtin.virtualbox (v2.9.27) — inventory
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Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27
Get inventory hosts from the local virtualbox installation.
Uses a YAML configuration file that ends with virtualbox.(yml|yaml) or vbox.(yml|yaml).
The inventory_hostname is always the 'Name' of the virtualbox instance.
cache: default: false description: - Toggle to enable/disable the caching of the inventory's source data, requires a cache plugin setup to work. env: - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE ini: - key: cache section: inventory type: bool query: default: {} description: create vars from virtualbox properties type: dictionary groups: default: {} description: Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals. type: dict plugin: choices: - virtualbox description: token that ensures this is a source file for the 'virtualbox' plugin required: true strict: default: false description: - If V(yes) make invalid entries a fatal error, otherwise skip and continue. - Since it is possible to use facts in the expressions they might not always be available and we ignore those errors by default. type: bool compose: default: {} description: Create vars from jinja2 expressions. type: dict cache_plugin: default: memory description: - Cache plugin to use for the inventory's source data. env: - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN ini: - key: fact_caching section: defaults - key: cache_plugin section: inventory type: str cache_prefix: default: ansible_inventory_ description: - Prefix to use for cache plugin files/tables env: - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX ini: - key: fact_caching_prefix section: defaults - key: cache_prefix section: inventory keyed_groups: default: [] description: Add hosts to group based on the values of a variable. elements: dict suboptions: default_value: description: - The default value when the host variable's value is an empty string. - This option is mutually exclusive with O(keyed_groups[].trailing_separator). type: str version_added: '2.12' version_added_collection: ansible.builtin key: description: - The key from input dictionary used to generate groups type: str parent_group: description: parent group for keyed group type: str prefix: default: '' description: A keyed group name will start with this prefix type: str separator: default: _ description: separator used to build the keyed group name type: str trailing_separator: default: true description: - Set this option to V(False) to omit the O(keyed_groups[].separator) after the host variable when the value is an empty string. - This option is mutually exclusive with O(keyed_groups[].default_value). type: bool version_added: '2.12' version_added_collection: ansible.builtin type: list running_only: default: false description: toggles showing all vms vs only those currently running type: boolean cache_timeout: default: 3600 description: - Cache duration in seconds env: - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_TIMEOUT ini: - key: fact_caching_timeout section: defaults - key: cache_timeout section: inventory type: int use_extra_vars: default: false description: Merge extra vars into the available variables for composition (highest precedence). env: - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_USE_EXTRA_VARS ini: - key: use_extra_vars section: inventory_plugins type: bool version_added: '2.11' version_added_collection: ansible.builtin cache_connection: description: - Cache connection data or path, read cache plugin documentation for specifics. env: - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_CONNECTION ini: - key: fact_caching_connection section: defaults - key: cache_connection section: inventory type: str leading_separator: default: true description: - Use in conjunction with keyed_groups. - By default, a keyed group that does not have a prefix or a separator provided will have a name that starts with an underscore. - This is because the default prefix is "" and the default separator is "_". - Set this option to False to omit the leading underscore (or other separator) if no prefix is given. - If the group name is derived from a mapping the separator is still used to concatenate the items. - To not use a separator in the group name at all, set the separator for the keyed group to an empty string instead. type: boolean version_added: '2.11' version_added_collection: ansible.builtin network_info_path: default: /VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP description: property path to query for network information (ansible_host) settings_password_file: description: provide a file containing the settings password (equivalent to --settingspwfile)