when making a new playbook always make sure you give the hosts the correct name. ansible will just keep running and will say it completed everything even if nothing got done.

playbooks/hosts/grobisplitter01.phx2.fedoraproject.org.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 - import_playbook: "/srv/web/infra/ansible/playbooks/include/virt-create.yml myhosts=grobisplitter"
 
 - name: make the box be real
-  hosts: nagios
+  hosts: grobisplitter
   user: root
   gather_facts: True
 
@@ -30,3 +30,22 @@
   handlers:
   - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
 
+- name: set up packages
+  hosts: grobisplitter
+  user: root
+  gather_facts: True
+  vars_files:
+   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
+   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
+   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
+  handlers:
+  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
+
+
+  tasks:
+   - name: install needed packages
+     package: name={{ item }} state=present
+     with_items:
+       - rsync
+       - net-tools
+       - libmodulemd