[pve-devel] Adding creation time as metadata field to VM/containers?

[Victor Hooi]

Hi,

In our case, we have users clone templates via the Proxmox Web UI - so I
don't think setting the description field automatically there is an option.
(As in, not sure how you'd hook it into the Web UI - or is there another
way to have hooks/triggers for VMs created via the Web UI).

What is Dominik's tags you're referring to? This seems interesting, and
maybe this request could be lumped in there.

Thanks,
Victor

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:47 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 6/9/20 11:13 PM, Victor Hooi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any chance of adding creation time as a queryable metadata field
> > for VMs/containers?
> >
> > The use-case for us is - we want to know the overall age of a machine,
> for
> > things like patching schedules etc. (We want to auto-kill machines
> beyond a
> > certain age).
>
> I thought about this too recently, initially I hoped that we could just
> return the
> "create time" of the config file as an really cheap and normally true
> creation time,
> but then remembered that our the pmxcfs saves only modification time and
> sets that
> for all, atime, mtime, ctime.
>
> As a workaround for now, you could use the "description" to save some
> structured
> data which includes this info, e.g., in JSON or the like format.
>
> I'd be open to have metadata field, maybe it could also host Dominik's tag
> he has
> in the works - so we'd only have one such field in the config.
>
> cheers,
> Thomas
>
>