Automating VM creation

[pmard]

Hello!

As I am trying to copy the string displayed when creating a VM using the Proxmox web interface, put the string in a script and copy/change the variables to create e.g. 64 VM's in one go the resulting VM's does not seem to be "healthy" as they do not appear in the Proxmox web interface once created.

The line I use is this (after changing the name, MAC address etc. to a different one for each new VM machine):

/usr/sbin/qm create 102 -cdrom local:iso/w2k8r2.iso
--name ds01g02
--vlan0 e1000=72:fd:e2:81::f4:86
--bootdisk ide0
--ostype other -ide0 local:32,format=raw
--onboot no
--sockets 4

a) What is wrong/missing in the line above?
b) Is there a way to generate the VM MAC address, how is this done by the proxmox web interface?

Any clues greatly apprecetaed!

Cheers,
///peo

 

[dietmar]

a) What is wrong/missing in the line above?

What error do you get (when creating or starting the VM)?

b) Is there a way to generate the VM MAC address, how is this done by the proxmox web interface?

Take a look at 'qmrestore' script. It has a --repeat option to restore multiple times, and option --unique to generate MACs

# man qmrestore