From 3a1944edc15de9f13343cb7368fb97fc487a5d77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Jahns <jjahns@vmware.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 11:50:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add find_vm_by_name function to vmware utils

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/vmware.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/vmware.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/vmware.py
index 2f895801466..a0999c05442 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/vmware.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/vmware.py
@@ -99,6 +99,15 @@ def find_hostsystem_by_name(content, hostname):
     return None
 
 
+def find_vm_by_name(content, vm_name):
+
+    vms = get_all_objs(content, [vim.VirtualMachine])
+    for vm in vms:
+        if vm.name == vm_name:
+            return vm
+    return None
+
+
 def vmware_argument_spec():
 
     return dict(