community.general.proxmox_kvm – Management of Qemu(KVM) Virtual Machines in Proxmox VE cluster.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.proxmox_kvm.

Synopsis

• Allows you to create/delete/stop Qemu(KVM) Virtual Machines in Proxmox VE cluster.

• From community.general 4.0.0 on, there will be no default values, see proxmox_default_behavior.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• proxmoxer

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
acpi boolean	Choices: no yes	Specify if ACPI should be enabled/disabled. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of yes. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
agent boolean	Choices: no yes	Specify if the QEMU Guest Agent should be enabled/disabled.
api_host string / required		Specify the target host of the Proxmox VE cluster.
api_password string		Specify the password to authenticate with. You can use PROXMOX_PASSWORD environment variable.
api_token_id string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		Specify the token secret.
api_user string / required		Specify the user to authenticate with.
args string		Pass arbitrary arguments to kvm. This option is for experts only! If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of -serial unix:/var/run/qemu-server/<vmid>.serial,server,nowait. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
autostart boolean	Choices: no yes	Specify if the VM should be automatically restarted after crash (currently ignored in PVE API). If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of no. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
balloon integer		Specify the amount of RAM for the VM in MB. Using zero disables the balloon driver. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of 0. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
bios string	Choices: seabios ovmf	Specify the BIOS implementation.
boot string		Specify the boot order -> boot on floppy a, hard disk c, CD-ROM d, or network n. You can combine to set order. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of cnd. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
bootdisk string		Enable booting from specified disk. (ide|sata|scsi|virtio\d+)
cicustom string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: Specify custom files to replace the automatically generated ones at start.
cipassword string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: password of default user to create.
citype string added in 1.3.0 of community.general	Choices: nocloud configdrive2	cloud-init: Specifies the cloud-init configuration format. The default depends on the configured operating system type (ostype). We use the nocloud format for Linux, and configdrive2 for Windows.
ciuser string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: username of default user to create.
clone string		Name of VM to be cloned. If vmid is setted, clone can take arbitrary value but required for initiating the clone.
cores integer		Specify number of cores per socket. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of 1. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
cpu string		Specify emulated CPU type. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of kvm64. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
cpulimit integer		Specify if CPU usage will be limited. Value 0 indicates no CPU limit. If the computer has 2 CPUs, it has total of '2' CPU time
cpuunits integer		Specify CPU weight for a VM. You can disable fair-scheduler configuration by setting this to 0 If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of 1000. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
delete string		Specify a list of settings you want to delete.
description string		Specify the description for the VM. Only used on the configuration web interface. This is saved as comment inside the configuration file.
digest string		Specify if to prevent changes if current configuration file has different SHA1 digest. This can be used to prevent concurrent modifications.
force boolean	Choices: no yes	Allow to force stop VM. Can be used with states stopped, restarted and absent. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of no. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
format string	Choices: cloop cow qcow qcow2 qed raw vmdk unspecified	Target drive's backing file's data format. Used only with clone Use format=unspecified and full=false for a linked clone. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of qcow2. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to no_defaults, not specifying this option is equivalent to setting it to unspecified. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
freeze boolean	Choices: no yes	Specify if PVE should freeze CPU at startup (use 'c' monitor command to start execution).
full boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Create a full copy of all disk. This is always done when you clone a normal VM. For VM templates, we try to create a linked clone by default. Used only with clone
hostpci dictionary		Specify a hash/dictionary of map host pci devices into guest. hostpci='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - hostpci[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ N. Values allowed are - "host="HOSTPCIID[;HOSTPCIID2...]",pcie="1|0",rombar="1|0",x-vga="1|0"". The host parameter is Host PCI device pass through. HOSTPCIID syntax is bus:dev.func (hexadecimal numbers). pcie=boolean default=0 Choose the PCI-express bus (needs the q35 machine model). rombar=boolean default=1 Specify whether or not the device's ROM will be visible in the guest's memory map. x-vga=boolean default=0 Enable vfio-vga device support. /!\ This option allows direct access to host hardware. So it is no longer possible to migrate such machines - use with special care.
hotplug string		Selectively enable hotplug features. This is a comma separated list of hotplug features 'network', 'disk', 'cpu', 'memory' and 'usb'. Value 0 disables hotplug completely and value 1 is an alias for the default 'network,disk,usb'.
hugepages string	Choices: any 2 1024	Enable/disable hugepages memory.
ide dictionary		A hash/dictionary of volume used as IDE hard disk or CD-ROM. ide='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - ide[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ 3. Values allowed are - "storage:size,format=value". storage is the storage identifier where to create the disk. size is the size of the disk in GB. format is the drive's backing file's data format. qcow2|raw|subvol.
ipconfig dictionary added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: Set the IP configuration. A hash/dictionary of network ip configurations. ipconfig='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - ipconfig[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ network interfaces. Values allowed are - "[gw=<GatewayIPv4>] [,gw6=<GatewayIPv6>] [,ip=<IPv4Format/CIDR>] [,ip6=<IPv6Format/CIDR>]". cloud-init: Specify IP addresses and gateways for the corresponding interface. IP addresses use CIDR notation, gateways are optional but they should be in the same subnet of specified IP address. The special string 'dhcp' can be used for IP addresses to use DHCP, in which case no explicit gateway should be provided. For IPv6 the special string 'auto' can be used to use stateless autoconfiguration. If cloud-init is enabled and neither an IPv4 nor an IPv6 address is specified, it defaults to using dhcp on IPv4.
keyboard string		Sets the keyboard layout for VNC server.
kvm boolean	Choices: no yes	Enable/disable KVM hardware virtualization. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of yes. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
localtime boolean	Choices: no yes	Sets the real time clock to local time. This is enabled by default if ostype indicates a Microsoft OS.
lock string	Choices: migrate backup snapshot rollback	Lock/unlock the VM.
machine string		Specifies the Qemu machine type. type => (pc|pc(-i440fx?-\d+\.\d+(\.pxe)?|q35|pc-q35-\d+\.\d+(\.pxe)?))
memory integer		Memory size in MB for instance. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of 512. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
migrate_downtime integer		Sets maximum tolerated downtime (in seconds) for migrations.
migrate_speed integer		Sets maximum speed (in MB/s) for migrations. A value of 0 is no limit.
name string		Specifies the VM name. Only used on the configuration web interface. Required only for state=present.
nameservers list / elements=string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: DNS server IP address(es). If unset, PVE host settings are used.
net dictionary		A hash/dictionary of network interfaces for the VM. net='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - net[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ N. Values allowed are - "model="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX",bridge="value",rate="value",tag="value",firewall="1|0",trunks="vlanid"". Model is one of e1000 e1000-82540em e1000-82544gc e1000-82545em i82551 i82557b i82559er ne2k_isa ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 virtio vmxnet3. XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX should be an unique MAC address. This is automatically generated if not specified. The bridge parameter can be used to automatically add the interface to a bridge device. The Proxmox VE standard bridge is called 'vmbr0'. Option rate is used to limit traffic bandwidth from and to this interface. It is specified as floating point number, unit is 'Megabytes per second'. If you specify no bridge, we create a kvm 'user' (NATed) network device, which provides DHCP and DNS services.
newid integer		VMID for the clone. Used only with clone. If newid is not set, the next available VM ID will be fetched from ProxmoxAPI.
node string		Proxmox VE node on which to operate. Only required for state=present. For every other states it will be autodiscovered.
numa dictionary		A hash/dictionaries of NUMA topology. numa='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - numa[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ N. Values allowed are - "cpu="<id[-id];...>",hostnodes="<id[-id];...>",memory="number",policy="(bind|interleave|preferred""). cpus CPUs accessing this NUMA node. hostnodes Host NUMA nodes to use. memory Amount of memory this NUMA node provides. policy NUMA allocation policy.
numa_enabled boolean	Choices: no yes	Enables NUMA.
onboot boolean	Choices: no yes	Specifies whether a VM will be started during system bootup. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of yes. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
ostype string	Choices: other wxp w2k w2k3 w2k8 wvista win7 win8 win10 l24 l26 solaris	Specifies guest operating system. This is used to enable special optimization/features for specific operating systems. The l26 is Linux 2.6/3.X Kernel. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of l26. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
parallel dictionary		A hash/dictionary of map host parallel devices. parallel='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - (parallel[n]) where 0 ≤ n ≤ 2. Values allowed are - "/dev/parport\d+|/dev/usb/lp\d+".
pool string		Add the new VM to the specified pool.
protection boolean	Choices: no yes	Enable/disable the protection flag of the VM. This will enable/disable the remove VM and remove disk operations.
proxmox_default_behavior string added in 1.3.0 of community.general	Choices: compatibility no_defaults	Various module options used to have default values. This cause problems when user expects different behavior from proxmox by default or fill options which cause problems when they have been set. The default value is compatibility, which will ensure that the default values are used when the values are not explicitly specified by the user. From community.general 4.0.0 on, the default value will switch to no_defaults. To avoid deprecation warnings, please set proxmox_default_behavior to an explicit value. This affects the acpi, autostart, balloon, boot, cores, cpu, cpuunits, force, format, kvm, memory, onboot, ostype, sockets, tablet, template, vga, options.
reboot boolean	Choices: no yes	Allow reboot. If set to yes, the VM exit on reboot.
revert string		Revert a pending change.
sata dictionary		A hash/dictionary of volume used as sata hard disk or CD-ROM. sata='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - sata[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ 5. Values allowed are - "storage:size,format=value". storage is the storage identifier where to create the disk. size is the size of the disk in GB. format is the drive's backing file's data format. qcow2|raw|subvol.
scsi dictionary		A hash/dictionary of volume used as SCSI hard disk or CD-ROM. scsi='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - sata[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ 13. Values allowed are - "storage:size,format=value". storage is the storage identifier where to create the disk. size is the size of the disk in GB. format is the drive's backing file's data format. qcow2|raw|subvol.
scsihw string	Choices: lsi lsi53c810 virtio-scsi-pci virtio-scsi-single megasas pvscsi	Specifies the SCSI controller model.
searchdomains list / elements=string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: Sets DNS search domain(s). If unset, PVE host settings are used.
serial dictionary		A hash/dictionary of serial device to create inside the VM. '{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - serial[n](str; required) where 0 ≤ n ≤ 3. Values allowed are - (/dev/.+|socket). /!\ If you pass through a host serial device, it is no longer possible to migrate such machines - use with special care.
shares integer		Rets amount of memory shares for auto-ballooning. (0 - 50000). The larger the number is, the more memory this VM gets. The number is relative to weights of all other running VMs. Using 0 disables auto-ballooning, this means no limit.
skiplock boolean	Choices: no yes	Ignore locks Only root is allowed to use this option.
smbios string		Specifies SMBIOS type 1 fields.
snapname string		The name of the snapshot. Used only with clone.
sockets integer		Sets the number of CPU sockets. (1 - N). If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of 1. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
sshkeys string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		cloud-init: SSH key to assign to the default user. NOT TESTED with multiple keys but a multi-line value should work.
startdate string		Sets the initial date of the real time clock. Valid format for date are 'now' or '2016-09-25T16:01:21' or '2016-09-25'.
startup string		Startup and shutdown behavior. [[order=]\d+] [,up=\d+] [,down=\d+]. Order is a non-negative number defining the general startup order. Shutdown in done with reverse ordering.
state string	Choices: present ← started absent stopped restarted current	Indicates desired state of the instance. If current, the current state of the VM will be fetched. You can access it with results.status
storage string		Target storage for full clone.
tablet boolean	Choices: no yes	Enables/disables the USB tablet device. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of no. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
tags list / elements=string added in 2.3.0 of community.general		List of tags to apply to the VM instance. Tags must start with [a-z0-9_] followed by zero or more of the following characters [a-z0-9_-+.]. Tags are only available in Proxmox 6+.
target string		Target node. Only allowed if the original VM is on shared storage. Used only with clone
tdf boolean	Choices: no yes	Enables/disables time drift fix.
template boolean	Choices: no yes	Enables/disables the template. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of no. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
timeout integer	Default: 30	Timeout for operations.
update boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If yes, the VM will be updated with new value. Cause of the operations of the API and security reasons, I have disabled the update of the following parameters net, virtio, ide, sata, scsi. Per example updating net update the MAC address and virtio create always new disk... Update of pool is disabled. It needs an additional API endpoint not covered by this module.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
vcpus integer		Sets number of hotplugged vcpus.
vga string	Choices: std cirrus vmware qxl serial0 serial1 serial2 serial3 qxl2 qxl3 qxl4	Select VGA type. If you want to use high resolution modes (>= 1280x1024x16) then you should use option 'std' or 'vmware'. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity (the default value), this option has a default of std. Note that the default value of proxmox_default_behavior changes in community.general 4.0.0.
virtio dictionary		A hash/dictionary of volume used as VIRTIO hard disk. virtio='{"key":"value", "key":"value"}'. Keys allowed are - virto[n] where 0 ≤ n ≤ 15. Values allowed are - "storage:size,format=value". storage is the storage identifier where to create the disk. size is the size of the disk in GB. format is the drive's backing file's data format. qcow2|raw|subvol.
vmid integer		Specifies the instance ID. If not set the next available ID will be fetched from ProxmoxAPI.
watchdog string		Creates a virtual hardware watchdog device.

Examples

- name: Create new VM with minimal options
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf

- name: Create new VM with minimal options and given vmid
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    vmid: 100

- name: Create new VM with two network interface options
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    net:
      net0: 'virtio,bridge=vmbr1,rate=200'
      net1: 'e1000,bridge=vmbr2'

- name: Create new VM with one network interface, three virto hard disk, 4 cores, and 2 vcpus
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    net:
      net0: 'virtio,bridge=vmbr1,rate=200'
    virtio:
      virtio0: 'VMs_LVM:10'
      virtio1: 'VMs:2,format=qcow2'
      virtio2: 'VMs:5,format=raw'
    cores: 4
    vcpus: 2

- name: >
    Clone VM with only source VM name.
    The VM source is spynal.
    The target VM name is zavala
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    clone: spynal
    name: zavala
    node: sabrewulf
    storage: VMs
    format: qcow2
    timeout: 500

- name: >
    Create linked clone VM with only source VM name.
    The VM source is spynal.
    The target VM name is zavala
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    clone: spynal
    name: zavala
    node: sabrewulf
    storage: VMs
    full: no
    format: unspecified
    timeout: 500

- name: Clone VM with source vmid and target newid and raw format
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    clone: arbitrary_name
    vmid: 108
    newid: 152
    name: zavala
    node: sabrewulf
    storage: LVM_STO
    format: raw
    timeout: 300

- name: Create new VM and lock it for snapshot
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    lock: snapshot

- name: Create new VM and set protection to disable the remove VM and remove disk operations
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    protection: yes

- name: Create new VM using cloud-init with a username and password
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    node: sabrewulf
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    ide:
      ide2: 'local:cloudinit,format=qcow2'
    ciuser: mylinuxuser
    cipassword: supersecret
    searchdomains: 'mydomain.internal'
    nameservers: 1.1.1.1
    net:
      net0: 'virtio,bridge=vmbr1,tag=77'
    ipconfig:
      ipconfig0: 'ip=192.168.1.1/24,gw=192.168.1.1'

- name: Create new VM using Cloud-Init with an ssh key
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    node: sabrewulf
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    ide:
      ide2: 'local:cloudinit,format=qcow2'
    sshkeys: 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAILJkVm98B71lD5XHfihwcYHE9TVpsJmK1vR1JcaU82L+'
    searchdomains: 'mydomain.internal'
    nameservers:
      - '1.1.1.1'
      - '8.8.8.8'
    net:
      net0: 'virtio,bridge=vmbr1,tag=77'
    ipconfig:
      ipconfig0: 'ip=192.168.1.1/24'

- name: Start VM
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    state: started

- name: Stop VM
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    state: stopped

- name: Stop VM with force
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    state: stopped
    force: yes

- name: Restart VM
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    state: restarted

- name: Remove VM
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    state: absent

- name: Get VM current state
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    state: current

- name: Update VM configuration
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    cores: 8
    memory: 16384
    update: yes

- name: Delete QEMU parameters
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    delete: 'args,template,cpulimit'

- name: Revert a pending change
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    revert: 'template,cpulimit'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
msg string	always	A short message Sample: VM kropta with vmid = 110 is running
status string	success, not clone, not absent, not update	The current virtual machine status. Sample: running
vmid integer	success	The VM vmid. Sample: 115

Authors

• Abdoul Bah (@helldorado) <bahabdoul at gmail.com>