vm.create

Create a Virtual Machine (VM).

Maximum of 16 guest virtual CPUs are allowed. By default, every virtual CPU is configured as a separate package. Multiple cores can be configured per CPU by specifying cores attributes. vcpus specifies total number of CPU sockets. cores specifies number of cores per socket. threads specifies number of threads per core.

ensure_display_device when set ( the default ) will ensure that the guest always has access to a video device. For headless installations like ubuntu server this is required for the guest to operate properly. However for cases where consumer would like to use GPU passthrough and does not want a display device added should set this to false.

arch_type refers to architecture type and can be specified for the guest. By default the value is null and system in this case will choose a reasonable default based on host.

machine_type refers to machine type of the guest based on the architecture type selected with arch_type. By default the value is null and system in this case will choose a reasonable default based on arch_type configuration.

shutdown_timeout indicates the time in seconds the system waits for the VM to cleanly shutdown. During system shutdown, if the VM hasn’t exited after a hardware shutdown signal has been sent by the system within shutdown_timeout seconds, system initiates poweroff for the VM to stop it.

hide_from_msr is a boolean which when set will hide the KVM hypervisor from standard MSR based discovery and is useful to enable when doing GPU passthrough.

hyperv_enlightenments can be used to enable subset of predefined Hyper-V enlightenments for Windows guests. These enlightenments improve performance and enable otherwise missing features.

suspend_on_snapshot is a boolean attribute which when enabled will automatically pause/suspend VMs when a snapshot is being taken for periodic snapshot tasks. For manual snapshots, if user has specified vms to be paused, they will be in that case.

Type: object

Type: array
No Additional Items

Tuple Validation

Parameter 1: vm_create

vm_create

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Command Line Args

Type: string Default: ""

Cpu Mode

Type: enum (of string) Default: "CUSTOM"
Must be one of:
  • "CUSTOM"
  • "HOST-MODEL"
  • "HOST-PASSTHROUGH"

Cpu Model

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Name

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Description

Type: string Default: ""

Vcpus

Type: integer Default: 1

Value must be greater or equal to 1

Cores

Type: integer Default: 1

Value must be greater or equal to 1

Threads

Type: integer Default: 1

Value must be greater or equal to 1

Cpuset

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Nodeset

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Enable Cpu Topology Extension

Type: boolean Default: false

Pin Vcpus

Type: boolean Default: false

Suspend On Snapshot

Type: boolean Default: false

Trusted Platform Module

Type: boolean Default: false

Memory

Type: integer

Value must be greater or equal to 20

Min Memory

Default: null

Type: integer

Value must be greater or equal to 20

Type: null

Hyperv Enlightenments

Type: boolean Default: false

Bootloader

Type: enum (of string) Default: "UEFI"
Must be one of:
  • "UEFI_CSM"
  • "UEFI"

Bootloader Ovmf

Type: string Default: "OVMF_CODE.fd"

Autostart

Type: boolean Default: true

Hide From Msr

Type: boolean Default: false

Ensure Display Device

Type: boolean Default: true

Time

Type: enum (of string) Default: "LOCAL"
Must be one of:
  • "LOCAL"
  • "UTC"

Shutdown Timeout

Type: integer Default: 90

Value must be greater or equal to 5 and lesser or equal to 300

Arch Type

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Machine Type

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Uuid

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Enable Secure Boot

Type: boolean Default: false

VMEntry

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Command Line Args

Type: string Default: ""

Cpu Mode

Type: enum (of string) Default: "CUSTOM"
Must be one of:
  • "CUSTOM"
  • "HOST-MODEL"
  • "HOST-PASSTHROUGH"

Cpu Model

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Name

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Description

Type: string Default: ""

Vcpus

Type: integer Default: 1

Value must be greater or equal to 1

Cores

Type: integer Default: 1

Value must be greater or equal to 1

Threads

Type: integer Default: 1

Value must be greater or equal to 1

Cpuset

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Nodeset

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Enable Cpu Topology Extension

Type: boolean Default: false

Pin Vcpus

Type: boolean Default: false

Suspend On Snapshot

Type: boolean Default: false

Trusted Platform Module

Type: boolean Default: false

Memory

Type: integer

Value must be greater or equal to 20

Min Memory

Default: null

Type: integer

Value must be greater or equal to 20

Type: null

Hyperv Enlightenments

Type: boolean Default: false

Bootloader

Type: enum (of string) Default: "UEFI"
Must be one of:
  • "UEFI_CSM"
  • "UEFI"

Bootloader Ovmf

Type: string Default: "OVMF_CODE.fd"

Autostart

Type: boolean Default: true

Hide From Msr

Type: boolean Default: false

Ensure Display Device

Type: boolean Default: true

Time

Type: enum (of string) Default: "LOCAL"
Must be one of:
  • "LOCAL"
  • "UTC"

Shutdown Timeout

Type: integer Default: 90

Value must be greater or equal to 5 and lesser or equal to 300

Arch Type

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Machine Type

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Uuid

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Devices

Type: array of object
No Additional Items
Each item of this array must be:

VMDeviceEntry

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Id

Type: integer

Attributes


VMCDROMDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "CDROM"
Specific value: "CDROM"

Path

Type: string Default: "*"

Path must not contain "{", "}" characters, and it should start with "/mnt/".

Must match regular expression: ^/mnt/[^{}]*$

Must be at least 1 characters long

VMDisplayDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "DISPLAY"
Specific value: "DISPLAY"

Resolution

Type: enum (of string) Default: "1024x768"
Must be one of:
  • "1920x1200"
  • "1920x1080"
  • "1600x1200"
  • "1600x900"
  • "1400x1050"
  • "1280x1024"
  • "1280x720"
  • "1024x768"
  • "800x600"
  • "640x480"

Port

Default: null

Type: integer

Value must be greater or equal to 5900 and lesser or equal to 65535

Type: null

Web Port

Default: null

Type: integer

Value must be greater or equal to 5900 and lesser or equal to 65535

Type: null

Bind

Type: string Default: "127.0.0.1"

Must be at least 1 characters long

Wait

Type: boolean Default: false

Password

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Web

Type: boolean Default: true

Type

Type: const Default: "SPICE"
Must be one of:
  • "SPICE"
Specific value: "SPICE"

VMNICDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "NIC"
Specific value: "NIC"

Trust Guest Rx Filters

Type: boolean Default: false

Type

Type: enum (of string) Default: "E1000"
Must be one of:
  • "E1000"
  • "VIRTIO"

Nic Attach

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Mac

Default: null

Type: string
Must match regular expression: ^([0-9A-Fa-f]{2}[:-]?){5}([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})$
Type: null

VMPCIDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "PCI"
Specific value: "PCI"

Pptdev

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

VMRAWDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "RAW"
Specific value: "RAW"

Path

Type: string Default: "127.0.0.1"

Path must not contain "{", "}" characters.

Must match regular expression: ^[^{}]*$

Must be at least 1 characters long

Type

Type: enum (of string) Default: "AHCI"
Must be one of:
  • "AHCI"
  • "VIRTIO"

Exists

Type: boolean Default: false

Boot

Type: boolean Default: false

Size

Default: null

Type: integer
Type: null

Logical Sectorsize

Default: null

Type: enum (of integer or null)
Must be one of:
  • null
  • 512
  • 4096
Type: null

Physical Sectorsize

Default: null

Type: enum (of integer or null)
Must be one of:
  • null
  • 512
  • 4096
Type: null

Iotype

Type: enum (of string) Default: "THREADS"
Must be one of:
  • "NATIVE"
  • "THREADS"
  • "IO_URING"

Serial

Default: null

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Type: null

VMDiskDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "DISK"
Specific value: "DISK"

Path

Default: null

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Type: null

Type

Type: enum (of string) Default: "AHCI"
Must be one of:
  • "AHCI"
  • "VIRTIO"

Create Zvol

Type: boolean Default: false

Zvol Name

Default: null

Type: string
Type: null

Zvol Volsize

Default: null

Type: integer
Type: null

Logical Sectorsize

Default: null

Type: enum (of integer or null)
Must be one of:
  • null
  • 512
  • 4096
Type: null

Physical Sectorsize

Default: null

Type: enum (of integer or null)
Must be one of:
  • null
  • 512
  • 4096
Type: null

Iotype

Type: enum (of string) Default: "THREADS"
Must be one of:
  • "NATIVE"
  • "THREADS"
  • "IO_URING"

Serial

Default: null

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Type: null

VMUSBDevice

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Dtype

Type: const
Must be one of:
  • "USB"
Specific value: "USB"

Default: null

USBAttributes

Type: object
No Additional Properties

Vendor Id

Type: string Default: "127.0.0.1"

Vendor id must start with "0x" prefix e.g 0x16a8.

Must match regular expression: ^0x.*

Must be at least 1 characters long

Product Id

Type: string Default: "127.0.0.1"

Product id must start with "0x" prefix e.g 0x16a8.

Must match regular expression: ^0x.*

Must be at least 1 characters long

Type: null

Controller Type

Type: enum (of string) Default: "nec-xhci"
Must be one of:
  • "piix3-uhci"
  • "piix4-uhci"
  • "ehci"
  • "ich9-ehci1"
  • "vt82c686b-uhci"
  • "pci-ohci"
  • "nec-xhci"
  • "qemu-xhci"

Device

Default: null

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Type: null

Vm

Type: integer

Order

Type: integer

Display Available

Type: boolean

Id

Type: integer

VMStatus

Type: object
No Additional Properties

State

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Pid


Type: integer
Type: null

Domain State

Type: string

Must be at least 1 characters long

Enable Secure Boot

Type: boolean Default: false


Required roles: VM_WRITE