About disk names in 'qm import disk'

[fdcastel]

1. How could I get (e.g. in a bash script) the name of disk created after a successfull invocation of qm import disk ?

# qm importdisk 201 ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-zfs
(...)
transferred 2.2 GiB of 2.2 GiB (100.00%)
Successfully imported disk as 'unused0:local-zfs:vm-201-disk-0'

How could I get that vm-201-disk-0 ? (preferably without grep / regex )

(I know the first disk will always be named "disk-0" but what if there are another disks in VM?)



2. There is a way to set the disk name during/after a qm import disk ?

E.g. Rename the above disk to vm-201-main-os

Feature request: Add a --name option in qm import disk ?

# qm importdisk 201 ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-zfs --name vm-201-main-os

 

[bbgeek17]

"importdisk" is one of the few commands that have no API end-point.

Its not fully wired in as evident by the fact that it requires the path to image to be local to the host, i.e. you cant specify storage:template/iso/image.raw it must be /mnt/pve/storage/template/iso/image.raw

It would be nice if there was an API and storage integration. Having said that, you asked for no-grep or regex solution, so technically this squeezes by:

qm importdisk 100 /mnt/pve/images/template/iso/cirros-0.5.2-x86_64-disk.img local --format raw
....
Successfully imported disk as 'unused4:local:100/vm-100-disk-4.raw'

pvesh get /nodes/pve/qemu/100/config  --output-format json | jq -r 'last(to_entries[]|select(.key|startswith("unused"))).value'
local:100/vm-100-disk-4.raw

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[fdcastel]

Thanks @bbgeek17 for the detailed information.



When I said PREFERABLY without grep / regex it was only to highlight that I was looking for a more "programmatically inclined" solution.

But your usage of jq to query the VM config is also very educative and useful.

I'm a complete noob in Proxmox VE (but I'm already in love with it!) and I didn't notice the --output-format argument for CLI apps.



I'm learning it just now and collecting some useful script on https://github.com/fdcastel/PVE-Automation

Please let me know if you know of any similar project.

Thanks again!

F.D.Castel.

 

[bbgeek17]

You may find this interesting as well https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-cirros/

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[fabian]

pulling up import to the API is a feature currently being worked on btw!