community.vmware.vmware_guest_vnc module – Manages VNC remote display on virtual machines in vCenter

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 1.18.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_guest_vnc.

DEPRECATED

Removed in

major release after 2022-10-15

Why

VNC has been removed in 7.0 and 2022-10-15 is the End of General Support date for 6.5 / 6.7.

Alternative

Users should use the VM Console via the vSphere Client, the ESXi Host Client, or the VMware Remote Console to connect to virtual machines.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to enable and disable VNC remote display on virtual machine.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 2.6

  • PyVmomi

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

datacenter

string

Destination datacenter for the deploy operation.

This parameter is case sensitive.

Default: “ha-datacenter”

folder

string

Destination folder, absolute or relative path to find an existing guest.

The folder should include the datacenter. ESX’s datacenter is ha-datacenter

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_HOST will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

moid

string

Managed Object ID of the instance to manage if known, this is a unique identifier only within a single vCenter instance.

This is required if name or uuid is not supplied.

name

string

Name of the virtual machine to work with.

Virtual machine names in vCenter are not necessarily unique, which may be problematic, see name_match.

name_match

string

If multiple virtual machines matching the name, use the first or last found.

Choices:

  • first ← (default)

  • last

password

aliases: pass, pwd

string

The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PASSWORD will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

port

integer

The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PORT will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

Default: 443

proxy_host

string

Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

The format is a hostname or a IP.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_HOST will be used instead.

This feature depends on a version of pyvmomi greater than v6.7.1.2018.12

proxy_port

integer

Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_PORT will be used instead.

state

string

Set the state of VNC on virtual machine.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

username

aliases: admin, user

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_USER will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

uuid

string

UUID of the instance to manage if known, this is VMware’s unique identifier.

This is required, if name or moid is not supplied.

validate_certs

boolean

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

If set to true, please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

vnc_ip

string

Sets an IP for VNC on virtual machine.

This is required only when state is set to present and will be ignored if state is absent.

Default: “0.0.0.0”

vnc_password

string

Sets a password for VNC on virtual machine.

This is required only when state is set to present and will be ignored if state is absent.

Default: “”

vnc_port

integer

The port that VNC listens on. Usually a number between 5900 and 7000 depending on your config.

This is required only when state is set to present and will be ignored if state is absent.

Default: 0

Notes

Note

  • All modules requires API write access and hence is not supported on a free ESXi license.

Examples

- name: Enable VNC remote display on the VM
  community.vmware.vmware_guest_vnc:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    folder: /mydatacenter/vm
    name: testvm1
    vnc_port: 5990
    vnc_password: vNc5ecr3t
    datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vnc_result

- name: Disable VNC remote display on the VM
  community.vmware.vmware_guest_vnc:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
    uuid: 32074771-7d6b-699a-66a8-2d9cf8236fff
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vnc_result

- name: Disable VNC remote display on the VM using MoID
  community.vmware.vmware_guest_vnc:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
    moid: vm-42
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vnc_result

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

changed

boolean

If anything changed on VM’s extraConfig.

Returned: always

failed

boolean

If changes failed.

Returned: always

instance

dictionary

Dictionary describing the VM, including VNC info.

Returned: On success in both state

Status

  • This module will be removed in a major release after 2022-10-15. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Armin Ranjbar Daemi (@rmin)