From e729ad56a003f3de04a86b4ba11079741d42dd03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jose Angel Munoz <josea.munoz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:13:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing VMWare Guest Disk Creation when Using Template
 (#52676)

---
 lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
index 344cc78e0df..4ef73678a61 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
@@ -1818,8 +1818,8 @@ class PyVmomiHelper(PyVmomi):
             if 'filename' in expected_disk_spec and expected_disk_spec['filename'] is not None:
                 self.add_existing_vmdk(vm_obj, expected_disk_spec, diskspec, scsi_ctl)
                 continue
-            elif vm_obj is None:
-                # We are creating new VM
+            elif vm_obj is None or self.params['template']:
+                # We are creating new VM or from Template
                 diskspec.fileOperation = vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceSpec.FileOperation.create
 
             # which datastore?