About the vmware_vm_shell module, cant activate eth0 via ip command

[Jeff S]

Hello

I am currently preparing a playbook for installing and configuring HAProxy on a vmware VM, everything works so far, but i have a problem for managing the VM via ssh, as i cant turn up the network interface eth0, there must be an error in my yaml-code, or may the usage of ip link set eth0 up is not supported for vmware_vm_shell module. 

Please, can anyone give me some advice on solving this issue?

Task:

  - name: activate eth0
    vmware_vm_shell:
      hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
      username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"
      password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"
      validate_certs: "no"
      datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
      folder: "{{ to_infra }}"
      vm_id: "{{ nam }}"
      vm_username: "{{ common_user }}"
      vm_password: "{{ common_pw }}"
      vm_shell: "/sbin/ip"
      vm_shell_args: "link set eth0 up"

Note, the VM is running Ubuntu

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

vmware_vm_shell supports all commands which OS supports.

Try debugging using `vm_shell_args: link set eth0 up > /tmp/$$.txt 2>&1` which might reveal the error behind.

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[Jeff S]

Thx for the assist, works now!

Solution:

  - name: activate eth0
    vmware_vm_shell:
      hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
      username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"
      password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"
      validate_certs: "no"
      datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
      folder: "{{ to_infra }}"
      vm_id: "{{ nam }}"
      vm_username: "{{ common_user }}"
      vm_password: "{{ common_pw }}"

      vm_shell: "/usr/bin/sudo"
      vm_shell_args: "ip link set eth0 up > /tmp/debug.txt 2>&1"

Note, can be used to run any command with root-permissions on remote VMware-hosts, with no internet-connection setup!

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Would you be interested in raising a documentation update pull request against `vmware_vm_shell` with your findings? If you need a help, let me know.

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[Jeff S]

Sure, why not

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Please go through https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/index.html and add your example code here - https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/blob/1f295a8dbf7745e051c1e7f2fccae79829a6c6cb/plugins/modules/vmware_vm_shell.py#L161 

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde