community.general.xenserver_guest_info – Gathers information for virtual machines running on Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer host or pool

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.xenserver_guest_info.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

This module can be used to gather essential VM facts.

Requirements

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

python >= 2.6
XenAPI

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
hostname string	Default: "localhost"	The hostname or IP address of the XenServer host or XenServer pool master. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `XENSERVER_HOST` will be used instead. aliases: host, pool
name string		Name of the VM to gather facts from. VMs running on XenServer do not necessarily have unique names. The module will fail if multiple VMs with same name are found. In case of multiple VMs with same name, use `uuid` to uniquely specify VM to manage. This parameter is case sensitive. aliases: name_label
password string		The password to use for connecting to XenServer. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `XENSERVER_PASSWORD` will be used instead. aliases: pass, pwd
username string	Default: "root"	The username to use for connecting to XenServer. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `XENSERVER_USER` will be used instead. aliases: admin, user
uuid string		UUID of the VM to gather fact of. This is XenServer's unique identifier. It is required if name is not unique.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	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 `XENSERVER_VALIDATE_CERTS` will be used instead.

Notes

Note

Minimal supported version of XenServer is 5.6.
Module was tested with XenServer 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.6, Citrix Hypervisor 8.0, XCP-ng 7.6 and 8.0.
To acquire XenAPI Python library, just run pip install XenAPI on your Ansible Control Node. The library can also be found inside Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer SDK (downloadable from Citrix website). Copy the XenAPI.py file from the SDK to your Python site-packages on your Ansible Control Node to use it. Latest version of the library can also be acquired from GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xapi-project/xen-api/master/scripts/examples/python/XenAPI/XenAPI.py
If no scheme is specified in hostname, module defaults to http:// because https:// is problematic in most setups. Make sure you are accessing XenServer host in trusted environment or use https:// scheme explicitly.
To use https:// scheme for hostname you have to either import host certificate to your OS certificate store or use validate_certs: no which requires XenAPI library from XenServer 7.2 SDK or newer and Python 2.7.9 or newer.
This module was called xenserver_guest_facts before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Examples

- name: Gather facts
  community.general.xenserver_guest_info:
    hostname: "{{ xenserver_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ xenserver_username }}"
    password: "{{ xenserver_password }}"
    name: testvm_11
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: facts

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
instance dictionary	always	Metadata about the VM Sample: {'cdrom': {'type': 'none'}, 'customization_agent': 'native', 'disks': [{'name': 'testvm_11-0', 'name_desc': '', 'os_device': 'xvda', 'size': 42949672960, 'sr': 'Local storage', 'sr_uuid': '0af1245e-bdb0-ba33-1446-57a962ec4075', 'vbd_userdevice': '0'}, {'name': 'testvm_11-1', 'name_desc': '', 'os_device': 'xvdb', 'size': 42949672960, 'sr': 'Local storage', 'sr_uuid': '0af1245e-bdb0-ba33-1446-57a962ec4075', 'vbd_userdevice': '1'}], 'domid': '56', 'folder': '', 'hardware': {'memory_mb': 8192, 'num_cpu_cores_per_socket': 2, 'num_cpus': 4}, 'home_server': '', 'is_template': False, 'name': 'testvm_11', 'name_desc': '', 'networks': [{'gateway': '192.168.0.254', 'gateway6': 'fc00::fffe', 'ip': '192.168.0.200', 'ip6': ['fe80:0000:0000:0000:e9cb:625a:32c5:c291', 'fc00:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001'], 'mac': 'ba:91:3a:48:20:76', 'mtu': '1500', 'name': 'Pool-wide network associated with eth1', 'netmask': '255.255.255.128', 'prefix': '25', 'prefix6': '64', 'vif_device': '0'}], 'other_config': {'base_template_name': 'Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)', 'import_task': 'OpaqueRef:e43eb71c-45d6-5351-09ff-96e4fb7d0fa5', 'install-methods': 'cdrom', 'instant': 'true', 'mac_seed': 'f83e8d8a-cfdc-b105-b054-ef5cb416b77e'}, 'platform': {'acpi': '1', 'apic': 'true', 'cores-per-socket': '2', 'device_id': '0002', 'hpet': 'true', 'nx': 'true', 'pae': 'true', 'timeoffset': '-25200', 'vga': 'std', 'videoram': '8', 'viridian': 'true', 'viridian_reference_tsc': 'true', 'viridian_time_ref_count': 'true'}, 'state': 'poweredon', 'uuid': 'e3c0b2d5-5f05-424e-479c-d3df8b3e7cda', 'xenstore_data': {'vm-data': ''}}

Authors

Bojan Vitnik (@bvitnik) <bvitnik@mainstream.rs>

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/xenserver_guest_info_module.html