v6.2.1 (2025-09-19)

Bugfixes

Configuring video settings is skipped for running VMs.

This fixes a regression introduced in v6.0.2:
Running the role against a powered-on VM would fail with "VM state should be poweredoff to reconfigure video card settings."

v6.2.0 (2025-09-18)

Changes

The video card can be configured.

v6.1.0 (2025-08-23)

Changes

Added support for more recent Ubuntu versions (22.04, 24.04, 25.04), dropped support for outdated Ubuntu versions.

v6.0.1 (2021-12-22)

Bugfixes

The role no longer uses the include task because it was removed from Ansible core.

v6.0.0 (2021-12-22)

Changes

community.vmware/#179 changed the semantics of vmware_guest's customvalues parameter and added advanced_settings.
As hamburger_software.vmware_ubuntu_cloud_image exposes customvalues, some usages will have to be adjusted.

For example, if you used

  customvalues:
    - key: disk.EnableUUID
      value: 'TRUE'

to set configuration file parameters, change it to the new parameter

  advanced_settings:
    - key: disk.EnableUUID
      value: 'TRUE'

customvalues is still present, see the vSphere documentation of custom attributes and VM configuration file parameters for the difference between both parameters.

advanced_settings was added to vmware_guest in the 1.8.0 release of the community.vmware collection.
This release is part of the Ansible community package 3.2.0, which is based on ansible-core 2.10.7 (see build data).

For that reason, the minimum Ansible version of this role was raised to 2.10.7.

Contributors

@dotalchemy (#5)

v5.2.0 (2021-11-04)

Features

• Virtual Machines can be placed in folders.
• Ubuntu 21.04 is a tested platform.

v5.1.1 (2020-12-14)

Features

• Ubuntu 20.10 is a tested platform.
• Fixed an inaccurate task name.

v5.1.0 (2020-08-24)

Features

• VM notes can be set with annotation.

v5.0.0 (2020-08-24)

Changes

• Because of renamed dependencies, the module now requires Ansible 2.9.0 or above.

Bugfixes

• Remove warning about changed default permissions on file creation.

Features

• customvalues can be set on VM creation.

This can be used to avoid excessive syslog messages from multipathd on Ubuntu 20.04 based VMs.
Add this fragment to the role configuration:

customvalues:
  - key: disk.EnableUUID
    value: 'TRUE'

v4.0.1 (2020-05-13)

Bugfixes

• The domain search no longer is ignored.

Features

• Ubuntu 20.04 is a tested platform.