When using community.vmware.vmware_guest module – Manages virtual machines in vCenter — Ansible Community Documentation

• It uses syprep by default when it recognises it is a windows image

This is an issue because after running [[202209261330 Windows sysprep reference|Sysprep]] we need to relogin to set things like time zone, etc.

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references:

community.vmware.vmware_guest module – Manages virtual machines in vCenter — Ansible Community Documentation

• Uses SysPrep for Windows VM (depends on ‘guest_id’ parameter match ‘win’) with PyVmomi.