Ansible - "pyvmomi module required" error

[ludm...@gmail.com]

When I add the following section to otherwise working ansible playbook:

- name: Revert to a snapshot
      vmware_guest_snapshot:
        hostname: myvcenter
        username: myusername
        password: mypassword
        datacenter: myvcenter
        folder: myfolder
        name: guestname
        state: revert
        snapshot_name: snapshotname

and run:

ansible-playbook myplaybook

I get the following error:

TASK [Revert to a snapshot] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [x.x.x.x]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "pyvmomi module required"}

I was referencing the ansible documentation, linked below:

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vmware_guest_snapshot_module.html

Here's some info about my ansible server:

[root@ansible ansible]# uname -a
Linux ansible 2.6.32-696.6.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 14:17:22 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@ansible ansible]# cat /etc/*release
CentOS release 6.9 (Final)

[root@ansible ansible]# ansible --version
ansible 2.4.2.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 18 2016, 15:13:37) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)]

[root@ansible ansible]# pip list | grep pyvmomi
DEPRECATION: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.6
DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable this warning.
pyvmomi (6.5.0.2017.5.post1)

I tried googling for the error, but wasn't able to find any solutions so far. I would appreciate any help, regarding this issue.

Thank you!

[Matt Martz]

pyvmomi needs to be installed where the module is executing, per your output, it is failing to import pyvmomi on `x.x.x.x` (which is of course some obscured host)

You likely want to use `delegate_to: localhost` on that task to have ansible execute the module locally, instead of on a remote host.

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[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20.29.43 CET ludm...@gmail.com wrote:
> When I add the following section to otherwise working ansible playbook:
>
> - name: Revert to a snapshot
> vmware_guest_snapshot:
> hostname: myvcenter
> username: myusername
> password: mypassword
> datacenter: myvcenter
> folder: myfolder
> name: guestname
> state: revert
> snapshot_name: snapshotname
>
> and run:
>
> ansible-playbook myplaybook
>
> I get the following error:
>
> TASK [Revert to a snapshot]
> ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> fatal: [x.x.x.x]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "pyvmomi module
> required"}
>
>
> I was referencing the ansible documentation, linked below:
>
> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vmware_guest_snapshot_module.html

As the documentation say
"Requirements (on host that executes module)"

Task "Revert to a snapshot" is run on "fatal: [x.x.x.x]" so x.x.x.x need pyvmomi module installed.

> Here's some info about my ansible server:
>

> [root@ansible ansible]# pip list | grep pyvmomi
> pyvmomi (6.5.0.2017.5.post1)

If you intended to run the task on the Ansible contol machine you are missing a delegate_to: localhost

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[Ludmil Miltchev]

Thanks, Matt! I will give it a try.

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[董小呆]

Hi, i meet the same issue, are you how to solved ?

PLAY [Revert the given snapshot for virtual machines] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [localhost]

TASK [get vm state] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "PyVmomi Python module required. Install using \"pip install PyVmomi\""}

        to retry, use: --limit @/etc/ansible/Vm_rollback_snapshost.retry

PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

localhost                  : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1

Gathering Facts --------------------------------------------------------- 2.76s

get vm state ------------------------------------------------------------ 1.30s

Playbook finished: Thu Aug 16 16:41:51 2018, 2 total tasks.  0:00:04 elapsed.

[root@Georgeoelv1 ansible]# pip list | grep pyvmomi

pyvmomi                          6.7.0

[root@Georgeoelv1 ansible]#

在 2018年1月17日星期三 UTC+8上午3:29:43，ludm...@gmail.com写道：

在 2018年1月17日星期三 UTC+8上午3:29:43，ludm...@gmail.com写道：