Can not attach CM rom in Vmware

[Nick Vanadium]

Greetings all. Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this but I wasn't able to find anything related to this. 

So I have recently began playing with Ansible and I am trying to build some VMs in Vmware Sphere using the Ansible module. However I can't seem to be able to attach the CD rom to the VM with VMware. Below is the error I receive along with the syntax of my playbook. Any assistance would be much appreciated. 

My error:

PLAY [all] ********************************************************************

TASK: [vsphere_guest ] ********************************************************

failed: [EXAMPLE-Web01] => {"failed": true}

msg: unsupported parameter for module: vm_cdrom

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

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

           to retry, use: --limit @/home/ansible/create_vm.retry

EXAMPLE-Web01              : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1

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My playbook:

- hosts: all

  gather_facts: false

  connection: local

  user: ansible

  sudo: true

  vars_prompt:

    - name: "vcenter_hostname"

      prompt: "Enter vcenter hostname"

      private: no

      default: "vsphere.mydomain.com"

    - name: "vcenter_user"

      prompt: "Enter vcenter username"

      private: no

    - name: "vcenter_pass"

      prompt: "Enter vcenter password"

      private: yes

  vars:

    datacenter: 'My-Datacenter'

    esxi_host: 'esx1.mydomain.com'

    notes: 'Created by Ansible'

  tasks:

    - vsphere_guest:

        vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"

        guest: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

        state: powered_on

        vm_extra_config:

          notes: "{{ notes }}"

        vm_disk:

          disk1:

            size_gb: "{{ disk }}"

            type: thick

            datastore: "{{ datastore }}"

# Attach CD ROM to VM

        vm_cdrom:

            type: "iso"

            iso_path: "datastore1/iso/ansible-ks.iso"

        vm_nic:

          nic1:

            type: vmxnet3

            network: "{{ network }}"

            network_type: standard

        vm_hardware:

          memory_mb: "{{ memory }}"

          num_cpus: "{{ cpucount }}"

          osid: "{{ osid }}"

          scsi: paravirtual          

        esxi:

          datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"

          hostname: "{{ esxi_host }}"

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Hosts defined

EXAMPLE-Web01 disk='8' datastore='datastore1' network='vlan1' memory='512' cpucount='2' osid='rhel6_64Guest'

[Markus Ellers]

hi,

try making vm_cdrom a parameter under vm_hardware

       

vm_hardware:

  memory_mb: "{{ memory }}"

  num_cpus: "{{ cpucount }}"

  osid: "{{ osid }}"

  scsi: paravirtua

  vm_cdrom:

    type: "iso"

    iso_path: "datastore1/iso/ansible-ks.iso"

[Nick Vanadium]

Dude, thank you so much. It worked! Of course I tried moving the entry everywhere else other than what you suggested lol. But yeah man you finally gave me some peace. 

[Markus Ellers]

You're welcome. Sometimes all it takes is a fresh pair of eyes.

[Asaf Moalem]

Hi,

Were you able to connect the cdrom? 
I get the cdrom mounted with the ISO, but not connected.

Thanks.

Asaf.

[kesten broughton]

I saw the same problem and have not found a fix for it yet.

[David P]

Me too - Still looking for a solution. If anyone knows how to connect it that would be really helpful, thanks!