feat: Add 'import-from' parameter to qemu

[jamesharr]

I think this addresses #605. It adds an optional import-disk parameter for VMs.

I have no idea how to test this, or if I'm getting the additions made in the correct place. Please review with scrutiny and/or modify as-needed.

[mleone87]

This feature should be used in the next version of the provider for sure!

However, I feel that putting this in the resource properties would cause a lot of problem, this is not a parameter to be passed to the API every time we make a change(just an example).
The proxmox developers thought of it as a one-time pass parameter so it should be used only in resource creation(or recreation)

[jamesharr]

Ty. I agree with that assessment. For now, we're cloning from a template VM, but I would like to use this in the future.

I might need some pointers on how to accomplish this... I have limited experience using this TF provider let alone developing a TF provider, so I'm kind of lost with how to only apply that parameter on initial creation. I'll poke around today a bit but I'm not sure how far I'll get.

One other thing I noticed is that this might be an alternative to using iso or clone on the VM. When importing a disk image, neither parameter is needed. At the moment, one of those options is required, so I think this patch needs to add something to allow for a 3rd option instead of import/iso.

[jamesharr]

I have a local development environment going. I found another issue that we'll run into, specifically that I want to use cloud-init without cloning from an existing template.

proxmox_vm_qemu.control-node: Creating...
╷
│ Error: cloud-init parameters only supported on clones or updates
│ 
│   with proxmox_vm_qemu.control-node,
│   on main.tf line 93, in resource "proxmox_vm_qemu" "control-node":
│   93: resource "proxmox_vm_qemu" "control-node" {
│ 
╵
Command failed 1

I'm going to modify the originally issue to include more details of my proposed use-case since this is turning into a bigger thing than just adding a parameter. That way, I'll have something to work from.

[myplixa]

Hi guys, can you tell me when will be the release of this feature?