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

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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.

• Since community.general 4.0.0 on, there are no more default values, see proxmox_default_behavior.

Requirements

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

• proxmoxer

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
acpi boolean	Specify if ACPI should be enabled/disabled. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is true. Choices: false true
agent string	Specify if the QEMU Guest Agent should be enabled/disabled. Since community.general 5.5.0, this can also be a string instead of a boolean. This allows to specify values such as enabled=1,fstrim_cloned_disks=1.
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 community.general 1.3.0	Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret string added in community.general 1.3.0	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, this option has a default of -serial unix:/var/run/qemu-server/<vmid>.serial,server,nowait.
autostart boolean	Specify if the VM should be automatically restarted after crash (currently ignored in PVE API). This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is false. Choices: false true
balloon integer	Specify the amount of RAM for the VM in MB. Using zero disables the balloon driver. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is 0.
bios string	Specify the BIOS implementation. Choices: "seabios" "ovmf"
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. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is cnd.
bootdisk string	Enable booting from specified disk. (ide|sata|scsi|virtio\d+)
cicustom string added in community.general 1.3.0	cloud-init: Specify custom files to replace the automatically generated ones at start.
cipassword string added in community.general 1.3.0	cloud-init: password of default user to create.
citype string added in community.general 1.3.0	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. Choices: "nocloud" "configdrive2"
ciuser string added in community.general 1.3.0	cloud-init: username of default user to create.
clone string	Name of VM to be cloned. If vmid is set, clone can take an arbitrary value but is required for initiating the clone.
cores integer	Specify number of cores per socket. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is 1.
cpu string	Specify emulated CPU type. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is kvm64.
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 This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is 1000.
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.
efidisk0 dictionary added in community.general 4.5.0	Specify a hash/dictionary of EFI disk options. Requires bios=ovmf to be set to be able to use it.
efitype string	efitype indicates the size of the EFI disk. 2m will allow for a 2MB EFI disk, which will be enough to persist boot order and new boot entries. 4m will allow for a 4MB EFI disk, which will additionally allow to store EFI keys in order to enable Secure Boot Choices: "2m" "4m"
format string	format is the drive’s backing file’s data format. Please refer to the Proxmox VE Administrator Guide, section Proxmox VE Storage (see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html for the latest version, tables 3 to 14) to find out format supported by the provided storage backend.
pre_enrolled_keys boolean	pre_enrolled_keys indicates whether EFI keys for Secure Boot should be enrolled 1 in the VM firmware upon creation or not (0). If set to 1, Secure Boot will also be enabled by default when the VM is created. Choices: false true
storage string	storage is the storage identifier where to create the disk.
force boolean	Allow to force stop VM. Can be used with states stopped, restarted and absent. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is false. Choices: false true
format string	Target drive’s backing file’s data format. Used only with clone Use format=unspecified and full=false for a linked clone. Please refer to the Proxmox VE Administrator Guide, section Proxmox VE Storage (see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html for the latest version, tables 3 to 14) to find out format supported by the provided storage backend. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is qcow2. If proxmox_default_behavior is set to no_defaults, not specifying this option is equivalent to setting it to unspecified. Choices: "cloop" "cow" "qcow" "qcow2" "qed" "raw" "vmdk" "unspecified"
freeze boolean	Specify if PVE should freeze CPU at startup (use ‘c’ monitor command to start execution). Choices: false true
full boolean	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 Choices: false true ← (default)
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	Enable/disable hugepages memory. Choices: "any" "2" "1024"
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. Please refer to the Proxmox VE Administrator Guide, section Proxmox VE Storage (see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html for the latest version, tables 3 to 14) to find out format supported by the provided storage backend.
ipconfig dictionary added in community.general 1.3.0	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	Enable/disable KVM hardware virtualization. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is true. Choices: false true
localtime boolean	Sets the real time clock to local time. This is enabled by default if ostype indicates a Microsoft OS. Choices: false true
lock string	Lock/unlock the VM. Choices: "migrate" "backup" "snapshot" "rollback"
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. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is 512.
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 community.general 1.3.0	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	Enables NUMA. Choices: false true
onboot boolean	Specifies whether a VM will be started during system bootup. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is true. Choices: false true
ostype string	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. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is l26. Choices: "other" "wxp" "w2k" "w2k3" "w2k8" "wvista" "win7" "win8" "win10" "win11" "l24" "l26" "solaris"
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	Enable/disable the protection flag of the VM. This will enable/disable the remove VM and remove disk operations. Choices: false true
proxmox_default_behavior string added in community.general 1.3.0	As of community.general 4.0.0, various options no longer have default values. These default values caused problems when users expected different behavior from Proxmox by default or filled options which caused problems when set. - The value compatibility (default before community.general 4.0.0) will ensure that the default values are used when the values are not explicitly specified by the user. The new default is no_defaults, which makes sure these options have no defaults. - This affects the acpi, autostart, balloon, boot, cores, cpu, cpuunits, force, format, kvm, memory, onboot, ostype, sockets, tablet, template, vga, options. Choices: "compatibility" "no_defaults" ← (default)
reboot boolean	Allow reboot. If set to true, the VM exit on reboot. Choices: false true
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. Please refer to the Proxmox VE Administrator Guide, section Proxmox VE Storage (see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html for the latest version, tables 3 to 14) to find out format supported by the provided storage backend.
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. Please refer to the Proxmox VE Administrator Guide, section Proxmox VE Storage (see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html for the latest version, tables 3 to 14) to find out format supported by the provided storage backend.
scsihw string	Specifies the SCSI controller model. Choices: "lsi" "lsi53c810" "virtio-scsi-pci" "virtio-scsi-single" "megasas" "pvscsi"
searchdomains list / elements=string added in community.general 1.3.0	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	Ignore locks Only root is allowed to use this option. Choices: false true
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). This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is 1.
sshkeys string added in community.general 1.3.0	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	Indicates desired state of the instance. If current, the current state of the VM will be fetched. You can access it with results.status Choices: "present" ← (default) "started" "absent" "stopped" "restarted" "current"
storage string	Target storage for full clone.
tablet boolean	Enables/disables the USB tablet device. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is false. Choices: false true
tags list / elements=string added in community.general 2.3.0	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	Enables/disables time drift fix. Choices: false true
template boolean	Enables/disables the template. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is false. Choices: false true
timeout integer	Timeout for operations. Default: 30
update boolean	If true, 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. Choices: false ← (default) true
validate_certs boolean	If false, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. Choices: false ← (default) true
vcpus integer	Sets number of hotplugged vcpus.
vga string	Select VGA type. If you want to use high resolution modes (>= 1280x1024x16) then you should use option ‘std’ or ‘vmware’. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to compatiblity; then the default is std. Choices: "std" "cirrus" "vmware" "qxl" "serial0" "serial1" "serial2" "serial3" "qxl2" "qxl3" "qxl4"
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. Please refer to the Proxmox VE Administrator Guide, section Proxmox VE Storage (see https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html for the latest version, tables 3 to 14) to find out format supported by the provided storage backend.
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: Create VM with 1 10GB SATA disk and an EFI disk, with Secure Boot disabled by default
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    sata:
      sata0: 'VMs_LVM:10,format=raw'
    bios: ovmf
    efidisk0:
      storage: VMs_LVM_thin
      format: raw
      efitype: 4m
      pre_enrolled_keys: false

- name: Create VM with 1 10GB SATA disk and an EFI disk, with Secure Boot enabled by default
  community.general.proxmox_kvm:
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: secret
    api_host: helldorado
    name: spynal
    node: sabrewulf
    sata:
      sata0: 'VMs_LVM:10,format=raw'
    bios: ovmf
    efidisk0:
      storage: VMs_LVM
      format: raw
      efitype: 4m
      pre_enrolled_keys: 1

- 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: false
    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: true

- 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: true

- 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: true

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

Authors

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

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