Create bulk VM`s
- Thread starter danielt
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There are many ways. Details depend on your requirements.
You can use a for-loop with "qm" :
for i in {1..5}; do qm create $i [options]; done
You can utilize template and do linked clones.
You can combined the two above and add CloudInit for better control of deployment.
Depends on how you assign the IP, if its static - best to use CloudInit. You can also utilize qemu agent and a few other ways.
In short : its Linux there are probably a thousand ways to do what you want.
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See https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html (qm guest cmd) - you'll need to get creative if thats your chosen route. Perhaps upload new config file, edit via shell exec, etc. Again - depending on your circumstances (OS, boot level, etc) there are many different ways.
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There is no single user-friendly command to do what you want via agent, because thats not the purpose that agent is normally used for.
As I said, you'd need to get creative.
If you plan to use qemu agent that means your VM is up. If your VM is up - you can either access console via "qm terminal" or ssh into it.
If you insist on using qemu agent - look into "qm guest exec " with "--pass-stdin <boolean>" option. Find a way to pass through a sequence for execution that does what you want.
If I was doing it, I'd be using cloud-init or dhcp...
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