We are using ansible with the vmware_guest module, attempting to set customvalues with vSphere 6.5
##### ANSIBLE VERSION
ansible 2.4.0.0
config file = /Users/spollock/ansible/fs-vmw-control/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [u'/Users/spollock/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)]
##### SUMMARY
customvalues are not added, vSphere responds with : " A specified parameter was not correct: key"
##### SAMPLE PLAYBOOK
- name: Set a custom value
vmware_guest:
validate_certs: no
hostname: "{{ vcenterhostname }}"
username: "{{ vcusername }}"
password: "{{ vcpassword }}"
datacenter: "{{ vcdatacenter }}"
cluster: "{{ vccluster }}"
resource_pool: "k{{ vctargetkit }}"
uuid: 422bf5cb-b3b2-69ab-4053-21bcf7390d23
name: 1201-pollockkit
customvalues:
- key: remotedisplay.vnc.port
value: "7601"
#state: poweredoff
delegate_to: localhost
##### ERROR MESSAGE
"msg": "Failed to set custom value for key='remotedisplay.vnc.port' and value='7601'. Error was: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {\n dynamicType = <unset>,\n dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],\n msg = 'A specified parameter was not correct: key',\n faultCause = <unset>,\n faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [],\n invalidProperty = u'key'\n}"
