community / community.vmware / 1.18.2 / module / vmware_guest_tools_info Gather info about VMware tools installed in VM Authors: Diane Wang (@Tomorrow9) <dianew@vmware.com>community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_info (1.18.2) — module
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware:==1.18.2
collections: - name: community.vmware version: 1.18.2
Gather information about the VMware tools installed in virtual machine.
- name: Gather VMware tools info installed in VM specified by uuid community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_info: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}" uuid: 421e4592-c069-924d-ce20-7e7533fab926 delegate_to: localhost register: vmtools_info
- name: Gather VMware tools info installed in VM specified by name community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_info: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}" name: "{{ vm_name }}" delegate_to: localhost register: vmtools_info
moid: description: - Managed Object ID of the instance to manage if known, this is a unique identifier only within a single vCenter instance. - This is required if C(name) or C(uuid) is not supplied. type: str name: description: - Name of the VM to get VMware tools info. - This is required if C(uuid) or C(moid) is not supplied. type: str port: default: 443 description: - The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_PORT) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: int uuid: description: - UUID of the instance to manage if known, this is VMware's unique identifier. - This is required if C(name) or C(moid) is not supplied. type: str folder: description: - Destination folder, absolute or relative path to find an existing guest. - This is required if name is supplied. - The folder should include the datacenter. ESXi server's datacenter is ha-datacenter. - 'Examples:' - ' folder: /ha-datacenter/vm' - ' folder: ha-datacenter/vm' - ' folder: /datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: /datacenter1/vm/folder1' - ' folder: datacenter1/vm/folder1' - ' folder: /folder1/datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: folder1/datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: /folder1/datacenter1/vm/folder2' type: str hostname: description: - The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_HOST) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: str password: aliases: - pass - pwd description: - The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_PASSWORD) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: str username: aliases: - admin - user description: - The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_USER) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: str datacenter: description: - The datacenter name to which virtual machine belongs to. type: str name_match: choices: - first - last default: first description: - If multiple VMs matching the name, use the first or last found. type: str proxy_host: description: - Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. - The format is a hostname or a IP. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_PROXY_HOST) will be used instead. - This feature depends on a version of pyvmomi greater than v6.7.1.2018.12 required: false type: str proxy_port: description: - Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_PROXY_PORT) will be used instead. required: false type: int validate_certs: default: true description: - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to C(false) when certificates are not trusted. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. - If set to C(true), please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine. type: bool use_instance_uuid: default: false description: - Whether to use the VMware instance UUID rather than the BIOS UUID. type: bool
vmtools_info: description: metadata about the VMware tools installed in virtual machine returned: always sample: vm_guest_fullname: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) vm_guest_hostname: test vm_guest_id: windows9_64Guest vm_hw_version: vmx-14 vm_ipaddress: 10.10.10.10 vm_moid: null vm_name: test_vm vm_tools_install_status: toolsOk vm_tools_install_type: guestToolsTypeMSI vm_tools_last_install_count: 0 vm_tools_running_status: guestToolsRunning vm_tools_upgrade_policy: manual vm_tools_version: 10341 vm_tools_version_status: guestToolsCurrent vm_use_instance_uuid: false vm_uuid: null type: dict