@Ced76 "register" is not a module parameter. It's Ansible task parameter. Take a look at Ansible documentation for registered variables:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#registering-variables

Basically what "register: deploy" does is that is says "define a variable called deploy and put a return value of the module in it". A return value of the module in this case are numerous VM facts you can find in "deploy.instance" (sub)variable. Registered variable is accessible in any subsequent task of the same play. Also "deploy" here is just a random name chosen. You can name your registered variables however you like.

@jedimarcus Network configuration (IP, subnet, gateway) only works for Windows guests because there is proper support for it in XenServer Guest Tools for Windows. There is no such support (as far as I know) in XenServer Guest Tools for *nix based systems. Unlike tools for Windows, tools for *nix based systems only contain a few xenstore tools and a daemon (xe-daemon) that collects OS metrics. There is no management agent.

My idea is to write a proper agent for *nix based systems at some point but it won't be any time soon. Maybe Citrix (or Vates ?) will implement one before I do.

For now, you can use custom based network configuration trough xenstore and custom scripts. It's described in Notes section of the module documentation.

A milestone has been achieved . All of my modules have been merged upstream. I've updated the first post with new info.

That will most probably be all for Ansible 2.8. I'm keeping some improvements and possibly more modules for Ansible 2.9. Currently, I'm thinking about what other modules could be useful so I could implement them. Any suggestion or wish would be much appreciated.

First post has been updated with new info. Another module has been merged upstream. Also some bugs were fixed.

@jthompson333 No problem. I'm following both forums so I'll try to respond same day.

@desnudopenguino Thanks .

I've updated the first post with some more info and clarified some confusing stuff.