@stormi My bad. Ok I installed the nmap-ncat package under rockylinux and works perfectly now Thank you

Hi, there,
You would need an ansible XOA provider to be able to create virtual machines with a template like vmware does:

- name: clone VM
     vmware_guest:
       hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
       password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
       validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
       datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
       cluster: "{{ vcenter_cluster }}"
       name: SRV-NAMEVM
       folder: FOLDERTEST
       template: "{{ vm_template }}"
       networks:
         - name: LAN NETWORK
           ip: "{{ new_ip }}"
           netmask: "{{ netmask }}"
           gateway: "{{ gateway }}"
           domain: "{{ domain }}"
       wait_for_ip_address: True
       customization:
         hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
         domain: "{{ domain }}"
         dns_servers:
         - "{{ dns1 }}"
         - "{{ dns2 }}"
         dns_suffix:
         - "{{ domain }}"
       state: poweredon

Same for recovering and deleting the VM from ansible :

- name: INFO VM
      vmware_guest_info:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        name: SRV-NAMEVM
      delegate_to: localhost
      register: vm_info

- name: Shutdown VM...
      vmware_guest:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        name: SRV-NAMEVM
        state: poweredoff

    - name: delete VM...
      vmware_guest:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        name: SRV-NAMEVM
        state: absent

Hi, there,
You would need an ansible XOA provider to be able to create virtual machines with a template like vmware does:

- name: clone VM
     vmware_guest:
       hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
       password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
       validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
       datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
       cluster: "{{ vcenter_cluster }}"
       name: SRV-NAMEVM
       folder: FOLDERTEST
       template: "{{ vm_template }}"
       networks:
         - name: LAN NETWORK
           ip: "{{ new_ip }}"
           netmask: "{{ netmask }}"
           gateway: "{{ gateway }}"
           domain: "{{ domain }}"
       wait_for_ip_address: True
       customization:
         hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
         domain: "{{ domain }}"
         dns_servers:
         - "{{ dns1 }}"
         - "{{ dns2 }}"
         dns_suffix:
         - "{{ domain }}"
       state: poweredon

Same for recovering and deleting the VM from ansible :

- name: INFO VM
      vmware_guest_info:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        name: SRV-NAMEVM
      delegate_to: localhost
      register: vm_info

- name: Shutdown VM...
      vmware_guest:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        name: SRV-NAMEVM
        state: poweredoff

    - name: delete VM...
      vmware_guest:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        name: SRV-NAMEVM
        state: absent

@stormi My bad. Ok I installed the nmap-ncat package under rockylinux and works perfectly now Thank you

My server is up to date

@stormi

Would you like to push a pool-specific public SSH key into the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the specified VM and therefore authorize hosts in the pool to interact with the containers inside the VM?
Answer y/n: 
y
Attempting to push the public xscontainer key to USER@IP.
ID@IP's password: 
Success.
Attempting to refresh the state of the VM
Failure diagnosis: Unable to find ncat inside the VM. Please install ncat. 
Do you wish to retry?
Answer y/n:

@stormi I still have the same problem, the key does not want to install and asks me if I want to try again.

@stormi Thanks, I just tried that and it still doesn't work

@stormi I tried to do it but I don't think I succeeded. Could you send me a more specific doc of what you are doing?

thanks

@stormi OK, thanks. I will try your solution on a small lab.

@olivierlambert yes

Output to docker machine :

[XXXX@docker ~]$ cat .ssh/authorized_keys 
ssh-rsa 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 root@xcp-ng-XXX
[XXXX@docker ~]$ 

Output to XCP machine :

[07:53 xcp-ng-XXXX ~]# cat .ssh/known_hosts 
192.XXX.XXX.XXX ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBNJxGOt3RvDXvelRUPTYyIHmykXhfRWSEN6PXSKYUVxct8qjENHqqqAEJOrl6E5cF9orOGQfbAPjSlLwNqGUGlo=
[07:55 xcp-ng-XXX ~]#

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