Manage VirtualBox VMs with Ansible

mkinventory.sh

running_vms=($(VBoxManage list runningvms | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d '"'))

# Create Ansible inventory file
GROUP_NAME="local_vms"
for vm in $running_vms
do 
  vboxmanage guestproperty get "$vm" "/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP" 
done | 
awk -v group="$GROUP_NAME" '
   BEGIN { printf("[%s]\n", group)} 
   { print $2 }
' > hosts