A component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host.

[SZDRZ]

SUMMARY

I want to use ansible vmware_guest module to create virtual machine on my vCenter.But I got this error message: "fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to create a virtual machine : A component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host."}"

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_guest

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.10.8
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0]

COLLECTION VERSION

community.vmware          1.7.0

CONFIGURATION

no changed

OS / ENVIRONMENT

OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. vim playbook.yml (write playbook...)
2. ansible-playbook playbook.yml <-- (Got Error)

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: create demo vm
    vmware_guest:
      hostname: vc.test.com
      username: demo
      password: 1234
      validate_certs: no
      folder: /
      datacenter: "mydatacenter"
      name: demo1-by-ansible
      guest_id: centos7_64Guest
      state: poweredoff
      disk:
      - size_gb: 1
        type: thin
        datastore: QH82-datadisk
      hardware:
        hotadd_cpu: true
        hotremove_cpu: true
        hotadd_memory: true
        memory_mb: "128"
        num_cpus: "1"
        scsi: lsilogic
      networks:
      - name: "VM Network"
        device_type: vmxnet3
        ip: "192.168.45.11"
        netmask: 255.255.255.0

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

PLAY [localhost] *********************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [create demo vm] ****************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to create a virtual machine : A component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host."}

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

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[mariolenz]

This error message is quite misleading. Looking at your playbook, I think you didn't define cluster or esxi_hostname. According to the documentation, (exactly) one of them is required.

Does it help if you define one of them?

[SZDRZ]

@mariolenz No...I try to add cluster or esxi_hostname but still throw that error message.