API equivalent of qm importdisk

[vijay_m2]

Currently I use `qm importdisk 9000 jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.iso <Volume Group>` during VM creation. Now would like to use VE API for the same. What is the equivalent for that command with API.

 

[vijay_m2]

I know POST /api2/json/nodes/{node}/qemu's scsi<n> parameter has `import-from` option, but it didn't work for me. Can you please give an example on how to use it if it is the one we need to use.

 

[dcsapak]

I know POST /api2/json/nodes/{node}/qemu's scsi<n> parameter has `import-from` option, but it didn't work for me. Can you please give an example on how to use it if it is the one we need to use.

what exactly did not work for you?


an example parameter set would be

--scsi0 local:0,import-from=/path/to/imagefile

note that this can only be done as root@pam (since arbitrary paths can be given here) and there might be additional checks regarding format, etc.