creation of VMs via Rest API

[SteffenBarthel]

Good day,
I would like to be able to create VMs using the Rest API.
As far as I have seen there is no such function.
With kind regards
Steffen Barthel

[olivierlambert]

Hi,

This is already planned for a future release. Let me double check with @marcungeschikts that's somewhere in the backlog :)

[SteffenBarthel]

Is there already a release date or a workaround for the moment?

[olivierlambert]

No, that's why I asked our project manager to take a look. If you have a paid subscription, please open a ticket so we can work together with more details on how to provide you a first version with a higher priority.

[julien-f]

@SteffenBarthel Yes, in the meantime you can use xo-cli with the internal API method vm.create.

To get some basic information about the expected parameters: xo-cli --list-commands vm.create.

You can also enable the debug mode in xo-web by adding ?query in the query string of the URL, and then look at your browser's console to see which API calls are done by xo-web when creating a VM.

If you need help, post in the community forum: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/category/12/xen-orchestra