Localhost on the WSL side is the WSL Linux host itself and not the Windows
one. Unfortunately you still need to target your Windows localhost using
the winrm or psrp connection type.
Thanks
Jordan
On Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 1:50:54 AM UTC+10 John Petro wrote:
> If I am reading the output correctly, it looks like it can't find
> powershell. have you tried running a powershell command in WSL to see if
> you get that expected output?
>
> --John
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:40 AM Filipe Gonçalves <filipe.pe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ### Summary
>>
>> When running a simple playbook that uses the ansible.windows.*
>> module(i've tested some ansible.windows, not all) it always fails on
>> runtime, I'm using WSL1 on Windows 10, so I imagine it is because it is
>> recognizing localhost as the wsl virtual machine and not my windows
>> machine, I'm unsure if this is the case since im new to Ansible, but I have
>> researched this quite a bit and didn't find a concrete awnser.
>>
>> My inventory
>> [localhost]
>> 127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local
>>
>> Can upgrading the WSL version to WSL2 fix this issue?
>>
>>
>> ### Ansible Version
>> $ ansible --version
>> ansible [core 2.14.5]
>>
>>
>> ### OS / Environment
>>
>> WSL1, Windows 10
>>
>> ### Steps to Reproduce
>> - name: test
>> hosts: localhost
>> gather_facts: false
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: Run basic PowerShell script
>> ansible.windows.win_powershell:
>> script: |
>> echo "Hello World"
>>
>>
>> ### Expected Results
>>
>> Hello World
>>
>> ### Actual Results
>> fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
>> "changed": false,
>> "module_stderr": "/bin/sh: 1: powershell: not found\n",
>> "module_stdout": "",
>> "msg": "The module failed to execute correctly, you probably need to
>> set the interpreter.\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
>> "rc": 127
>> }
>>
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