[PVE-User] fast way to get all vm names via pvesh?

[Dietmar Maurer]

> Thats my current script to get all vm names from the cluster. Afterwards I
> check the new name against the list to prevent errors.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> nodes=$(pvesh get  /nodes/ 2>/dev/null  | sed -n -E '/\"id\"/
> s/.*:\s\"(.*)\".*/\1/p' | sed -n -E 's/node/nodes/p' )
> vms=$(for i in $nodes ; do vms=$(pvesh get $i/qemu/ 2>/dev/null | sed -n -E
> '/vmid/ s/.*:\s(.*[^\s]).*/\/qemu\/\1/p') ; for q in $vms ; do echo $i$q ;
> done  ; done )
> for i in $vms ; do pvesh get $i/config 2>/dev/null | sed -n -E '/\"name\"/
> s/.*:\s\"(.*[^\"])\".*/\1/p' | xargs echo "vm $i has name"  ; done
> 
> But its so SLOOOOOWWWWW
> 
> Any better ideas ?

Maybe the following helps?

# pvesh get /cluster/resources --type vm