Thanks Luke, but this requires networking again which i cant ensure due to 
topology and some wired policies. 

Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2018 14:07:32 UTC+1 schrieb Lucas Jackson:
>
> Hey Michael,
>
> Might be worth looking at the wait_for_connection module, I use this with 
> my vmware deployments and it seems to work pretty good.
>
>
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/wait_for_connection_module.html
>
>
> Luke
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael W <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> Date: 2018-12-21 2:07 AM (GMT-05:00) 
> To: Ansible Project <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> Subject: [ansible-project] Prefered way to launch a vm on vmware 
>
> Hello, 
> I'm new to ansible and tried to launch a Linux VM on my first Ansible 
> tests.
> This means cloning a vm from a template, booting and running some 
> first-boot commands in order to hand over controll to Puppet inside the vm. 
>
> So  i ended up with:
>
>    1.  vmware_guest to clone. 
>    2. vmware_tools_wait to ensure OS is up and ready
>    3. vmware_vm_shell for to launch Puppet. This is the only way - 
>    Network access not an option by policy.
>
> Works out of the box basicallly, but there seems to be a timing problem in 
> step 2. 
> Since the wm is rebooted in step 1 vmware_tools_wait fails in the first 
> place with someting like "unable to contact vm". 
>
> Ist my aproach correct and is there a way to get arround the timing 
> problem other than a stupid "sleep" between ? Didnt find a retry option 
> sadly.
>
> Thanks  for reading
>
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