Ansible - Deploy VM from Clone instance

[dudenamedben]

Playbook as follows:
- name: Create a full clone
hosts: PVE201
tasks:
- name: Create a full clone of 900
community.general.proxmox:
api_host: 192.168.90.201
api_user: root@pam
api_password: Passwrod
clone: 900 # vmid to clone
clone_type: full
cores: 2 # number of cores per cpu socket
cpus: 2 # number of cpu sockets
description: "Ubuntu 22.04 TEST"
disk: 10 # disk size in GB
hostname: ubuntu-2204-test
memory: 2048 # memory in MB
node: pve201
storage: pve_disks
vmid: 777 # new vmid

However, receiving internal server error 500 Configuration file does not exist nodes/pve201/lxc/900.conf - this is correct this is no 900.conf file

This is a standalone PVE server, not in a cluster.

I must specify the node value in the playbook.

What is wrong here?

 

[cheiss]

Hi,

500 Configuration file does not exist nodes/pve201/lxc/900.conf - this is correct this is no 900.conf file

This simply means that there is no CT/template with the vmid 900. Are you sure this is the correct ID to clone?

Please post the output of pveversion -v and ls -lah /etc/pve/nodes/pve201/lxc/.

 

[dudenamedben]

@cheiss thanks for the reply.

VMID 900 is the Ubuntu template VM that I clone in the GUI.

pveversion -v

proxmox-ve: 7.4-1 (running kernel: 5.15.108-1-pve)
pve-manager: 7.4-16 (running version: 7.4-16/0f39f621)
pve-kernel-5.15: 7.4-4
pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-9
pve-kernel-5.11: 7.0-10
pve-kernel-5.15.108-1-pve: 5.15.108-2
pve-kernel-5.15.102-1-pve: 5.15.102-1
pve-kernel-5.15.83-1-pve: 5.15.83-1
pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve: 5.13.19-15
pve-kernel-5.13.19-2-pve: 5.13.19-4
pve-kernel-5.11.22-7-pve: 5.11.22-12
pve-kernel-5.11.22-1-pve: 5.11.22-2
ceph-fuse: 15.2.13-pve1
corosync: 3.1.7-pve1
criu: 3.15-1+pve-1
glusterfs-client: 9.2-1
ifupdown2: 3.1.0-1+pmx4
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-1
libknet1: 1.24-pve2
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.4
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.3.1-1
libproxmox-rs-perl: 0.2.1
libpve-access-control: 7.4.1
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.4-2
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.2-4
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.2-3
libpve-rs-perl: 0.7.7
libpve-storage-perl: 7.4-3
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 5.0.2-2
lxcfs: 5.0.3-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.4.0-1
proxmox-backup-client: 2.4.3-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.4.3-1
proxmox-kernel-helper: 7.4-1
proxmox-mail-forward: 0.1.1-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-offline-mirror-helper: 0.5.2
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.7.3
pve-cluster: 7.3-3
pve-container: 4.4-6
pve-docs: 7.4-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20230228-4~bpo11+1
pve-firewall: 4.3-5
pve-firmware: 3.6-5
pve-ha-manager: 3.6.1
pve-i18n: 2.12-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 7.2.0-8
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-2
qemu-server: 7.4-4
smartmontools: 7.2-pve3
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.8.0~bpo11+3
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.11-pve1

root@pve201:~# ls -lah /etc/pve/nodes/pve201/lxc/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Oct  4  2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Oct  4  2021 ..
root@pve201:~#

 

[dudenamedben]

@cheiss

root@pve201:~# qm list
      VMID NAME                 STATUS     MEM(MB)    BOOTDISK(GB) PID
       202 WinSVR2019           stopped    2048              60.00 0
       204 thames-prod-core1    stopped    2048              60.00 0
       205 thames-prod-motion1  stopped    2048              60.00 0
       213 Docker1              stopped    8192              32.00 0
       226 MOT1                 stopped    2048              60.00 0
       231 VERSIO-METAL-CS1     stopped    4096              60.00 0
       301 Win10Pro-JUMP-JR     stopped    8192              60.00 0
       302 Win10Pro-JUMP-JI     stopped    8192              60.00 0
       601 HA1                  stopped    1024              32.00 0
       701 PG1-UBUNTU           stopped    1024              32.00 0
       702 PG2-UBUNTU           stopped    1024              32.00 0
       704 PG4-UBUNTU           stopped    1024              32.00 0
       801 SRT                  stopped    1024              32.00 0
       900 Ubuntu-2204-template stopped    1024              32.00 0
       999 Monitor              stopped    4096              32.00 0
root@pve201:~#

 

[dudenamedben]

@cheiss located the conf file - under qemu-server dir not the lxc folder. However, when I cp the .conf file I am told that the file exists already. Same if I attempt to touch the file, apparently it exists... but dir (ls -al) shows no files.

 

[dudenamedben]

error resolved - using wrong ansible module! needed to use the community.general.proxmox_kvm module not the community.general.proxmox which is used for LXC! My bad. thanks for the replies.

 

[cheiss]

Great to hear you solved it!

Please just mark the thread as solved by editing the first post - there should be a dropdown near
the title field. This helps other people with the same problem to more easily find this thread in
the future!