Help with API - disk creation and assignment

[Virtus]

Hello!

I'm making a tool to migrate from vmware to proxmox. I've got everything done except for handling the disks.

I can't quite get the syntax right for creating LVM disks.

Ideally I want to create a bunch of 1gb LVMs when I import the configs, then resize them to the correct size later as I import the vmdk data into the LVMs.
If that's not something I can do through the API, I'll just create them to the full size initially.

I have qcow2 working, but not LVM. Syntax I am playing with is:
media=local-lvm:vm-1337-disk-1,size=250G

I am using proxmoxer/python for the tool, once i get approve from mgmt, I'll post a link to my repo

 

[Virtus]

Also,

Doing this I've learned a ton about the API and proxmox. I would love to contribute to the documentation, especially the API documentation but it's a little unclear to me how I can do so. I can't even register on the wiki

 

[Virtus]

so I figured it out, but it doesn't actually create the LVM, is there a way to do that through the API? Its done in the UI so I don't see the difference

 

[tim]

If the behavior you are looking for is already implemented in our web interface you could check your browsers developer tools. There you can take a look at each request which is performed, that's probably the easiest way to see which endpoint to use for a particular action.

Actually there is already a CLI tool to import disk images:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#_importing_virtual_machines_and_disk_images

What do you mean by "but it doesn't actually create the LVM"?
Do you mean there is no LV created for that particular disk or are you talking about the whole VG?

 

[oguz]

I would love to contribute to the documentation, especially the API documentation but it's a little unclear to me how I can do so. I can't even register on the wiki

The wiki registrations have been unfortunately disabled because of spam. If you would like to contribute, I suggest you to read the following:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation

The documentation can be found in repository pve-docs