vmware tools installed but not running after reboot

[Dmitry]

Hi, here is my playbook for windows vm deployment with ansible and vsphere community.   community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_wait waiting for tools installation but after next tasks they are not starts again. Why?

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- name : To test VM creation on vSphere

  hosts  : localhost

  gather_facts : True

  vars:

    WinIso: 'server-2019.iso'

    Datastore: 'DS9-1-NVME'

    DatastoreDir: 'iso'

    autounattend: 'unattend.iso'

    vcenter_hostname: 'vcsa.domain.com'

    vcenter_username: 'vc...@vsphere.local'

    vcenter_password: 'vsca2021!'

    esxi_hostname: 'esxi9.domain.com'

    datacenter: 'dc.domain.com'

    src: '/mnt/win/unattend.iso'

    vm_name: 'test_vm_009'

  become_user: root

  tasks  :

    - name: Print all available facts

      ansible.builtin.debug:

        var: ansible_facts

    - name: Repack XML to iso

      shell: |

        cd mnt/win

        FILE="{{src}}"

        if test -f "$FILE"; then

            rm "$FILE"

        fi

        genisoimage -o "{{src}}" -J /mnt/autounattend.xml

    - name: Copy file to datastore

      community.vmware.vsphere_copy:

        hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

        username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

        password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

        validate_certs: no

        src: /mnt/win/unattend.iso

        datacenter: dc.domain.com

        datastore: DS9-1-NVME

        path: /iso/unattend.iso

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Create a virtual machine on given ESXi hostname

      community.vmware.vmware_guest:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        datacenter: dc.domain.com

        folder: ESXI9

        name: test_vm_009

        state: powered-on

        guest_id: windows9Server64Guest

        # This is hostname of particular ESXi server on which user wants VM to be deployed

        esxi_hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"

        disk:

        - size_gb: 30

          controller_number: 0

          disk_mode: persistent

          unit_number: 0

          controller_type: 'sata'

          type: thin

          datastore: DS9-1-NVME

        hardware:

          memory_mb: 4096

          num_cpus: 4

          scsi: paravirtual

        networks:

        - name: VM Network

          ip: 10.10.4.166

          netmask: 255.255.255.0

          device_type: e1000

          type: static

        wait_for_ip_address: true

        # wait_for_ip_address_timeout: 600

        cdrom:

          - controller_number: 0

            unit_number: 0

            type: iso

            iso_path: "[{{ Datastore }}] {{ DatastoreDir }}/{{ WinIso }}"

            state: present

          - controller_number: 0

            unit_number: 1

            type: iso

            iso_path: "[{{ Datastore }}] {{ DatastoreDir }}/{{ autounattend }}"

            state: present

      delegate_to: localhost

      register: deploy_vm

    - name: Wait for VMware tools to become available by name

      community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_wait:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        name: test_vm_009

        folder: ESXI9

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Sleep for 30 seconds and continue with play

      wait_for:

        timeout: 30

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Set the state of a virtual machine to restart

      community.vmware.vmware_guest_powerstate:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        name: test_vm_009

        folder: ESXI9

        state: restarted

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Sleep for 5 seconds and continue with play

      wait_for:

        timeout: 5

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Set the state of a virtual machine to poweroff

      community.vmware.vmware_guest_powerstate:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        name: test_vm_009

        folder: ESXI9

        state: powered-off

      delegate_to: localhost

      register: deploy

    - name: Change video card settings of virtual machine

      community.vmware.vmware_guest_video:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"

        name: '{{ vm_name }}'

        validate_certs: no

        gather_video_facts: false

        use_auto_detect: false

        display_number: 1

        video_memory_mb: 128.0

        enable_3D: false

      delegate_to: localhost

      register: video_facts

    - name: Sleep for 3 seconds and continue with play

      wait_for:

        timeout: 3

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Unattach the ISO mount from the VM

      community.vmware.vmware_guest:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        datacenter: dc.domain.com

        folder: ESXI9

        name: '{{ vm_name }}'

        state: powered-off

        guest_id: windows9Server64Guest

        esxi_hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"

        cdrom:

          - controller_number: 0

            unit_number: 0

            type: none

            state: absent

          - controller_number: 0

            unit_number: 1

            type: none

            state: absent

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Sleep for 3 seconds and continue with play

      wait_for:

        timeout: 3

      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Set the state of a virtual machine to poweron

      community.vmware.vmware_guest_powerstate:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        folder: ESXI9

        name: test_vm_009

        state: powered-on

      delegate_to: localhost

      register: deploy