[pve-devel] [RFC] allow automatic VMID selection on create

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Using a dot (.) as a VMID will automatically select an available one,
this can be helpful for mass VM creation or may be simply just
convenient.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/API2/Qemu.pm | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
index 21fbebb..0665b4c 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
 	properties => PVE::QemuServer::json_config_properties(
 	    {
 		node => get_standard_option('pve-node'),
-		vmid => get_standard_option('pve-vmid', { completion => \&PVE::Cluster::complete_next_vmid }),
+		vmid => get_standard_option('pve-vmid-optional', { completion => \&PVE::Cluster::complete_next_vmid}),
 		archive => {
 		    description => "The backup file.",
 		    type => 'string',
@@ -414,6 +414,11 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
 
 	my $vmid = extract_param($param, 'vmid');
 
+	if ($vmid eq '.') {
+	    $vmid = PVE::Cluster::next_unused_vmid(100, 100000, 1);
+	    print "creating VM with VMID '$vmid'\n" if $rpcenv->{type} eq 'cli';
+	}
+
 	my $archive = extract_param($param, 'archive');
 
 	my $storage = extract_param($param, 'storage');
-- 
2.1.4