No Timeout in vmware_guest_info

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SUMMARY

When using vmware_guest_info, we ran into situations where the module does not return results for hours or days. We have a scheduled job, that uses the module to receive VM Informations every night, where it sometimes "get stuck". As there is no timeout, we don't know if it's a network issue or a programmatic error.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_guest_info

ANSIBLE VERSION

• Ansible 2.9.16
• Ansible Tower 3.7.2 on RedHat 7.9

CONFIGURATION

- name: Get current VC-Tags
  community.vmware.vmware_guest_info:
    name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    datacenter: ""
    tags: yes
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_host }}'
    username: '{{ lookup("env", "VMWARE_USER") }}'
    password: '{{ lookup("env", "VMWARE_PASSWORD") }}'
    validate_certs: '{{ vc_cert_validation }}'
  delegate_to: some_server
  register: vc_tags_old
  throttle: 29

EXPECTED RESULTS

Their should be a timeout with a meaningful error message, stating if the error is related to network issues or e.g. an unterminating loop inside the module.

ACTUAL RESULTS

The module does not return anything unless manually stopped.

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Files identified in the description:

• [plugins/modules/vmware_guest_info.py](https://github.com/['ansible-collections/amazon.aws', 'ansible-collections/community.aws', 'ansible-collections/community.vmware']/blob/main/plugins/modules/vmware_guest_info.py)

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