Ansible with windows server 2008 r2 sp1 - sysprep

[Fernando Henrique Borges]

Hi.

I deployed one VM (Vcenter Server/ESXi 5.5.0) from windows server 2008 r2 template using ansible playbook. 

Now I 'd like to initialize it, but the vm is configured with sysprep, When the ansible start the vm, it stop in the windows startup.

 hosts: localhost

  connection: local

  gather_facts: False

  tasks:

  - name: Create a VM from Template

    vmware_guest:

      validate_certs: false

      hostname: vcenterserver.lab.intranet

      username: us...@lab.intranet

      password: *******

      datacenter: DC

      folder: /POC/Ansible

      esxi_hostname: es...@lab.intranet

      name: win1

      state: poweredon

      template: TPL_W2008_STD_R2_SP1

      disk:

        type: thin

        datastore: "LUN_POC_DS8870_1TB_01"

      networks:

      - name: Lab

        ip: 192.168.12.15

        netmask: 255.255.255.0

      customization:

        autologon: True

        dns_servers:

        - 192.168.12.10

        joindomain: lab.intranet

        domainadmin: user...@lab.intranet

        domainadminpassword: *********

[J Hawkesworth]

Maybe you need to use runonce to run the powershell script to enable remoting:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vmware_guest_module.html

Be aware that unpatched Windows Server 2008 R2 has a bug in WMF 3.0 which stops winrm from being able to do anything useful. You need to install http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2842230 or get it up to date with windows updates before even running the setup module to gather facts against it.

Hope this helps,

Jon