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Ansible Role linuxfabrik.lfops.open_vm_tools

This role installs the Open VM Tools, a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests. It includes kernel modules for enhancing the performance of virtual machines running Linux or other VMware supported Unix like guest operating systems. It also manages vmtoolsd.service.

This role only makes sense on VMware-virtualized guests. On other virtualization platforms (KVM, Hyper-V, ...) the package may install but the daemon will not have anything useful to talk to.

Available since LFOps 2.0.0.

Tags

open_vm_tools

  • Installs open-vm-tools and manages vmtoolsd.service.
  • Triggers: none.

open_vm_tools:state

  • Manages the state of vmtoolsd.service (enable/disable at boot, plus start/stop/restart/reload).
  • Triggers: none.

Optional Role Variables

open_vm_tools__service_enabled

  • Whether vmtoolsd.service is enabled at boot, analogous to systemctl enable / disable.
  • Type: Bool.
  • Default: true

open_vm_tools__service_state

  • State of vmtoolsd.service, analogous to systemctl start / stop / restart / reload.
  • Type: String. One of reloaded, restarted, started, stopped.
  • Default: 'started' if open_vm_tools__service_enabled is true, otherwise 'stopped'.

Example:

# optional
open_vm_tools__service_enabled: true
open_vm_tools__service_state: 'started'

License

The Unlicense

Author Information

Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich