List of all Virtual Machine statuses

[Egor]

I can get the status of a virtual machine by using the command

pvesh get /nodes/pve/qemu/100/status/current

For now, I have seen 3 different values used for this field: paused, running, stopped.
What is the total list of all possible values and where can I look up theirs meaning?

 

[Egor]

So, is this an exhaustive list?
Is it declared anywhere?
Can I rely only on the specified states in my program?

I am sorry if I am asking a googleable question, but I wasn't able to find an answer (https://www.google.com/webhp?source...wwindow=1&q=proxmox+virtual+machine+status+&*)

 

[tom]

check via https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html

 

[Egor]

check via https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html

Sure, this is the website that I use while creating my application, but I cannot find what I was asking. That is why I have created this discussion.

 

[fabian]

there are no concrete plans to change this at the moment, but there is no guarantee on the API level about the format of the returned object.

AFAICT with a quick glance at the code, status is either "running" or "stopped", and qmpstatus is whatever qemu itself says about the status, which is actually either "running" or "paused", but if the VM is not running at all we also set it to "stopped" (since we can't ask qemu ). I might have missed an assignment somewhere though, so feel free to check yourself.

 

[dcsapak]

for qmpstatus there is also the status: prelaunch

which it does say when the qemu process is started but execution of the vm has not started yet (e.g. when making a backup or when setting the "stop cpu on startup" option)

 

[fabian]

correct (serves me right for only checking the human monitors help output - prelaunch is treated as a substate of paused there )

 

[Mecanik]

Can we get all possible values for status and qmpstatus? The API does not specify these.