# kubevirt_vm_info – Describe KubeVirt VirtualMachines

Note

This module is part of the kubevirt.core collection.

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 kubevirt.core`. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: `kubevirt.core.kubevirt_vm_info`.

## Synopsis

- Use the Kubernetes Python client to perform read operations on KubeVirt VirtualMachines.

- Pass options to find VirtualMachines as module arguments.

- Authenticate using either a config file, certificates, password or token.

- Supports check mode.

## Requirements

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

- python >= 3.9

- kubernetes >= 28.1.0

- PyYAML >= 3.11

## Parameters

Parameter | Comments
--- | ---
api_key string | Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_API_KEY environment variable.
api_version string | Use this to set the API version of KubeVirt. Default: `"kubevirt.io/v1"`
ca_cert aliases: ssl_ca_cert path | Path to a CA certificate used to authenticate with the API. The full certificate chain must be provided to avoid certificate validation errors. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT environment variable.
client_cert aliases: cert_file path | Path to a certificate used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CERT_FILE environment variable.
client_key aliases: key_file path | Path to a key file used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KEY_FILE environment variable.
context string | The name of a context found in the config file. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT environment variable.
field_selectors list / elements=string | List of field selectors to use to filter results Default: `[]`
host string | Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_HOST environment variable.
impersonate_groups list / elements=string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0 | Group(s) to impersonate for the operation. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_GROUPS environment. Example: Group1,Group2
impersonate_user string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0 | Username to impersonate for the operation. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_USER environment.
kubeconfig any | Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from ~/.kube/config. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable. Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator ';' for Windows platform or ':' for others platforms. The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version >= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.
label_selectors list / elements=string | List of label selectors to use to filter results Default: `[]`
name string | Specify the name of the VirtualMachine.
namespace string | Specify the namespace of VirtualMachines.
no_proxy string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0 | The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn't go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable. Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY). This feature requires kubernetes>=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct. example value is "localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16"
password string | Provide a password for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PASSWORD environment variable. Please read the description of the `username` option for a discussion of when this option is applicable.
persist_config boolean | Whether or not to save the kube config refresh tokens. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PERSIST_CONFIG environment variable. When the k8s context is using a user credentials with refresh tokens (like oidc or gke/gcloud auth), the token is refreshed by the k8s python client library but not saved by default. So the old refresh token can expire and the next auth might fail. Setting this flag to true will tell the k8s python client to save the new refresh token to the kube config file. Default to false. Please note that the current version of the k8s python client library does not support setting this flag to True yet. The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169 Choices: `false` `true`
proxy string | The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY environment variable. Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).
proxy_headers dictionary added in kubernetes.core 2.0.0 | The Header used for the HTTP proxy. Documentation can be found here https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/urllib3.util.html?highlight=proxy_headers#urllib3.util.make_headers.
basic_auth string | Colon-separated username:password for basic authentication header. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_BASIC_AUTH environment.
proxy_basic_auth string | Colon-separated username:password for proxy basic authentication header. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_PROXY_BASIC_AUTH environment.
user_agent string | String representing the user-agent you want, such as foo/1.0. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_USER_AGENT environment.
username string | Provide a username for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_USERNAME environment variable. Please note that this only works with clusters configured to use HTTP Basic Auth. If your cluster has a different form of authentication (e.g. OAuth2 in OpenShift), this option will not work as expected and you should look into the community.okd.k8s_auth module, as that might do what you need.
validate_certs aliases: verify_ssl boolean | Whether or not to verify the API server's SSL certificates. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL environment variable. Choices: `false` `true`
wait boolean | Whether to wait for the VirtualMachine to end up in the ready state. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
wait_sleep integer | Number of seconds to sleep between checks. Ignored if `wait` is not set. Default: `5`
wait_timeout integer | How long in seconds to wait for the resource to end up in the desired state. Ignored if `wait` is not set. Default: `120`

## Notes

Note

- To avoid SSL certificate validation errors when `validate_certs` is True, the full certificate chain for the API server must be provided via `ca_cert` or in the kubeconfig file.

## Examples

    - name: Get an existing VirtualMachine
      kubevirt.core.kubevirt_vm_info:
        name: testvm
        namespace: default
      register: default_testvm

    - name: Get a list of all VirtualMachines
      kubevirt.core.kubevirt_vm_info:
        namespace: default
      register: vm_list

    - name: Get a list of all VirtualMachines from any namespace
      kubevirt.core.kubevirt_vm_info:
      register: vm_list

    - name: Search for all VirtualMachines labelled app=test
      kubevirt.core.kubevirt_vm_info:
        label_selectors:
          - app=test

    - name: Wait until the VirtualMachine is Ready
      kubevirt.core.kubevirt_vm_info:
        name: testvm
        namespace: default
        wait: true

## Return Values

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

Key | Description
--- | ---
api_found boolean | Whether the specified api_version and VirtualMachine kind were successfully mapped to an existing API on the targeted cluster. Returned: always
resources complex | The VirtualMachine(s) that exists Returned: success
api_version string | The versioned schema of this representation of an object. Returned: success
kind string | Represents the REST resource this object represents. Returned: success
metadata dictionary | Standard object metadata. Includes name, namespace, annotations, labels, etc. Returned: success
spec dictionary | Specific attributes of the VirtualMachine. Can vary based on the api_version. Returned: success
status dictionary | Current status details for the VirtualMachine. Returned: success

### Authors

- KubeVirt.io Project