[pve-devel] [RFC qemu-server 14/19] api: update vm config: pin machine version when switching to windows os type

[Fiona Ebner]

During virtual machine creation, the machine version is pinned when
the guest OS is Windows. The same should be done when the guest OS
type is newly set to Windows for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
---

RFC because it is rather auto-magic-y, so not fully sure we want it.

 PVE/API2/Qemu.pm | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
index 27711ee6..4f5448e3 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
@@ -2108,6 +2108,24 @@ my $update_vm_api  = sub {
 		    my $machine_conf = PVE::QemuServer::Machine::parse_machine($param->{$opt});
 		    PVE::QemuServer::Machine::assert_valid_machine_property($machine_conf);
 		    $conf->{pending}->{$opt} = $param->{$opt};
+		} elsif ($opt eq 'ostype') {
+		    # Check if machine version pinning is needed when switching OS type, just like
+		    # upon creation. Skip if 'machine' is explicitly set or removed at the same time
+		    # to honor the users request. While it should be enough to look at $modified,
+		    # because 'machine' is sorted before 'ostype', be explicit just to be sure.
+		    if (
+			!defined($param->{machine})
+			&& !defined($conf->{pending}->{machine})
+			&& !$modified->{machine} # detects deletion
+		    ) {
+			eval {
+			    $conf->{pending}->{machine} =
+				PVE::QemuServer::Machine::check_and_pin_machine_string(
+				    $conf->{machine}, $param->{ostype});
+			};
+			print "automatic pinning of machine version failed - $@" if $@;
+		    }
+		    $conf->{pending}->{$opt} = $param->{$opt};
 		} elsif ($opt eq 'cipassword') {
 		    if (!PVE::QemuServer::Helpers::windows_version($conf->{ostype})) {
 			# Same logic as in cloud-init (but with the regex fixed...)
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