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I’m creating a new vm with ansible. I used vmware_guest here. I have added the iso file when creating vm. After creating, I turned on the power. But I can’t intervene to install the operating system.

How can I install the new vm operating system (linux, windows) that I created with Ansible?

> - name: Create a virtual machine
>       vmware_guest:
>         hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
>         username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
>         password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
>         datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
>         validate_certs: no
>         folder: /Ansible-Test
>         name: "{{vm_name}}"
>         state: poweredon
>         guest_id: "{{isletim_sistemi}}"
>         cluster: CLUSTER
>         disk:
>         - size_gb: "{{disk_boyutu}}"
>           type: eagerzeroedthick
>           autoselect_datastore: true
>         hardware:
>           memory_mb: "{{ram}}"
>           num_cpus: "{{cpu}}"
>           scsi: paravirtual
>         cdrom:
>           type: iso
>           iso_path: "{{iso}}"
>         networks:
>         - name: "{{vlan}}"
>           device_type: vmxnet3
>         wait_for_ip_address: no
>       delegate_to: localhost
>       register: deploy_vm

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The picture above shows the result of creating vm. I want to install the operating system by interfering with the next section.

I want to install centos 7, but I cannot intervene in the installation process.
Is this possible?
I want to work with this method, not with the template. I am familiar with creating templates.

ansible 2.7.10
Pyvmomi
vsphere 6.7

2

Answers


  1. Ansible can do that from a template, which you seem to already be familiar with, but I’m not aware of any methods which would allow you to build a VM from scratch.

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  2. You need to create a custom ISO file for the operating system. Eg. Binding kickstart file with RHEL operating system so that there will not be able to manual intervention during the booting process.

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