Ansible Role: vmwaretools

This role helps you install VMware Tools from VMware or uses Open VMware Tools (open-vm-tools) if needed.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Here are the variables you can use, along with their default values (see defaults/main.yml):

# Version of VMware Tools to install. You can find possible values here: http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html
vmwaretools_tools_version: latest

# The server that hosts the YUM repository. Change this if you have a local copy of public YUM repos.
vmwaretools_yum_server: https://packages.vmware.com

# The path on *yum_server* where the repository is located. Change this if you have a local copy of public YUM repos.
vmwaretools_yum_path: /tools

# Repository package version
# For example: 9.4.10-1 version for http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/repos/vmware-tools-repo-RHEL6-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
# If it's not set, it will be automatically detected.
# vmwaretools_repo_version: 9.4.10-1

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  become: yes
  roles:
    - role: ruzickap.vmwaretools
      when: ansible_virtualization_type == 'VMware'

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by [email protected]