diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
index 5c45bf73307..69d8a4c800e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ from netaddr import IPNetwork, IPAddress
 
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url
 from ansible.module_utils.vmware import get_all_objs, connect_to_api