In the VMware tests, we call the datastores `ds1` and `ds2`. The first
one is read-only, the second is read-write and can be used to deploy
VMs. The naming convention was not clear enough and source of a lot
confusion and mistake.
We now have two better names:
- ro_datastore, which is ... read-only
- rw_datastore, the one that we can use to deploy new VM.
- Use predictable VM name during the tests (test_vm1, test_vm2 and
test_vm2). This to simplify the teardown of the newly created resource
before the next test.
- Update the documentation to explain the new requirement
- Avoid VM creation with `with_items` when it's not mandatory. This to:
- speed up the test execution, our hypervisors have limited resources
- simplify the teardown
- Remove `create_d1_c1_f0_env.yml`, the test was just testing how Ansible
pass environment variables.
- Correct the name for the `f0` variable (`f1`)
- Fix the DVS tests, the hosts can now reach the dvswitch1 vswitch
- Provision the VM with a poweroff status, this to improve the
idempotency and sleep up the tests
- Avoid the use of `prepare_vmware_tests` to prepare virtual machines
when we just need one machine
- In order to keep the integration with `ansible-test`, we prefer to avoid any
interaction with the Ansible inventory file.
- split up the prepare_vmware_tests/defaults/main.yml in two
configuration files: one for vcsim and one for a real environment
- remove all the access to hostvars
- directly interact with the ESXi to mount/umount the datastore
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/56516
- record the virtual machine folder in the environment configuration
- vmware_guest_move: Use https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55237
The vmware test roles do a lot of similar operation to prepare
the environment. This role will be used to reduce the amount of
duplicated code.
The role can prepare an environment on a baremetal environment, this
in addition to vcsim.
Original PR: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54882
