This module can be used to connect to a virtual machine using VMware and to run a shell command. At no point does Ansible need to connect to the virtual machine using a network-based service such as SSH, making it useful for configuring VMs before they are on the network:
- name: Shell example vmware_vm_shell: hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}" username: "{{ vsphere_username }}" password: "{{ vsphere_password }}" datacenter: "my_datacenter" folder: "/my_vms" vm_id: "example_vm" vm_username: "root" vm_password: "supersecretpassword" vm_shell: "/bin/cat" vm_shell_args: " results_file " vm_shell_env: - "PATH=/bin" - "VAR=test" vm_shell_cwd: "/tmp" delegate_to: "localhost" register: shell_results
The previous example connects ...
