export a vm, remove it and then importing it again fails with the azure cli (azure vm create-from)

[woloski]

These are the commands I am running to export the definition of the VM, then deleting the VM and after that creating it again from the definition. I want to do this because otherwise I get charged for a VM even if it's shutdown, so I want an automated way to bring it back fast with the original VHD.

$ azure vm show --json myvm > myvm.json
...
$ azure vm delete sp-auth10
...
$ azure vm create-from myvm myvm.json
info:   Executing command vm create-from
+ Looking up cloud service                                                     
+ Getting cloud service properties                                             
+ Looking up deployment                                                        
+ Creating VM                                                                  
error:  Required argument VMRole.RoleName for function createDeployment is not defined

This is the content of the json file generated by azure vm show

{
  "DNSName": "myvm.cloudapp.net",
  "VMName": "myvm",
  "IPAddress": "10.74.76.4",
  "InstanceStatus": "ReadyRole",
  "InstanceSize": "Small",
  "InstanceStateDetails": {},
  "OSVersion": {},
  "Image": "MSFT__Win2K8R2SP1-120514-1520-141205-01-en-us-30GB.vhd",
  "DataDisks": [""],
  "Network": {
    "Endpoints": [
      {
        "LocalPort": "3389",
        "Name": "RemoteDesktop",
        "Port": "50977",
        "Protocol": "tcp",
        "Vip": "168.62.162.73"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Any workaround appreciated

Thanks
Matias

[markcowl]

@glennblock: figure out triage for these issues

[glennblock]

Do not use vm-show, use "azure vm export" as in this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/10/25/exporting-and-importing-vm-settings-with-the-azure-command-line-tools.aspx