Playbook woes using vsphere_guest on Mac OSX

[calamity_man]

Hello all,

I've put together a little playbook to help our IT department deploy VMs using the vsphere_guest module.

The playbook works great - so long as we're on a Linux system (running Ansible 1.8), but fails miserably when we try to run it on our MacBooks running OSX 10.10.3, Ansible 1.9.1, and pysphere 0.1.7.

Now that I'm typing this, I suppose the issue could have something to do with the Ansible version mis-match - but that's something I can test when I get back to the office in the morning.

Anyway, the error I get running the playbook on a Mac is:

failed: [127.0.0.1] => {"failed": true}
msg: parameters are required together: ['from_template', 'resource_pool', 'template_src']

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

I've tried running it as verbosely as possible looking for clues, but I'm lost ... so the playbook is below (I welcome any suggestions for improvement), and thanks in advance!

Playbook:

- hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  sudo: false
  gather_facts: false
  serial: 1

  vars_prompt:
  - name: "vcenter_user"
    prompt: "Enter your vcenter username"
    private: no

  - name: "user_pass"
    prompt: "Enter your vcenter password"
    private: yes

  - name: "vm_hostname"
    prompt: "Enter the hostname for this VM"
    private: no

  - name: "vm_memory"
    prompt: "Memory in MB"
    private: no
    default: "4048"

  - name: "vm_cores"
    prompt: "Number of Cores"
    private: no
    default: "2"

  tasks:
  - vsphere_guest:
     vcenter_hostname: vcenter01.XXXX
     username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
     password: "{{ user_pass }}"
     guest: "{{ vm_hostname }}"
     cluster: "CYC"
     resource_pool: "/Resources/XXXX-Default"
     state: powered_off
     vm_hw_version: "vmx-08"
     vm_extra_config:
       vcpu.hotadd: no
       mem.hotadd:  no
     vm_disk:
       disk1:
         size_gb: 60
         type: thick
         datastore: "DataStore03"
     vm_nic:
       nic1:
         type: e1000
         network: "XXXXX"
         network_type: standard
     vm_hardware:
       memory_mb: "{{ vm_memory }}"
       num_cpus: "{{ vm_cores }}"
       osid: otherLinux64Guest
       scsi: lsi
     esxi:
       datacenter: XXX
       hostname: XXXXX