[pve-devel] Finding a VM's Node via API

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:50:09 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> # pvesh get /cluster/resources -type vm
> 

perfect, thanks


> But I have no idea how to extract the result inside a shell script?

I use jq, which is a command line based json parser/filter. Its in wheezy 
backports and ubuntu main.

pvesh get /cluster/resources -type vm |jq -r ".[] | select(.vmid == 301) | 
.node"

returns just the node value for vmid = 301