XO Rest API

irtaza9

Is your VM up-to-date with the latest sources?

Yes I configured the XO from sources and it's not up to date. Should I update my XO and will it fix the issue or not?

olivierlambert

I strongly suggest to read this part of the doc: https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/community

And especially with this big yellow warning: https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/community#report-a-bug

irtaza9

@olivierlambert Thank you for your time. I've a paid subscription but I am using XO from sources. I've opened a ticket from the help desk

olivierlambert

Great For the version from the sources, it doesn't matter that you have paid support or not: you must use it with latest commits as possible For XOA, then it's up to the support to answer you

irtaza9

@olivierlambert omg I'll upgrade the XO. My question is still same, why the rest-api is not responding properly when I hit it from postman and the same api is responding with error when using xo-cli

df-cgdm

It looks like that's not possible to specify the CPU ??! with the /rest/v0/pools/{{pool_id}}/actions/create_vm

olivierlambert

What do you mean by "specify the CPU"?

df-cgdm

@olivierlambert I'm not able to specify the number of vCPU for the VM

olivierlambert

Are you fully up to date? Also pinging @julien-f about this.

df-cgdm

@olivierlambert yes I think so.

Here is the result of /rest/v0/pools/_/actions/create_vm (there is no cpu parameter)

{
  "params": {
    "affinity": {
      "type": "string",
      "optional": true
    },
    "auto_poweron": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "optional": true
    },
    "boot": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false
    },
    "clone": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": true
    },
    "cloud_config": {
      "type": "string",
      "optional": true
    },
    "destroy_cloud_config_vdi": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false
    },
    "install": {
      "type": "object",
      "optional": true,
      "properties": {
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "cdrom",
            "network"
          ]
        },
        "repository": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "memory": {
      "type": "integer",
      "optional": true
    },
    "name_description": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 0,
      "optional": true
    },
    "name_label": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "network_config": {
      "type": "string",
      "optional": true
    },
    "template": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "vdis": {
      "type": "array",
      "default": [],
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "destroy": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "optional": true
          },
          "userdevice": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          },
          "size": {
            "type": "number",
            "optional": true
          },
          "sr": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          },
          "name_description": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          },
          "name_label": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          }
        },
        "if": {
          "not": {
            "required": [
              "userdevice"
            ]
          }
        },
        "then": {
          "required": [
            "size",
            "name_label"
          ],
          "not": {
            "required": [
              "destroy"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "vifs": {
      "default": [],
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "destroy": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "optional": true
          },
          "device": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          },
          "ipv4_allowed": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "optional": true
          },
          "ipv6_allowed": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "optional": true
          },
          "mac": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          },
          "network": {
            "type": "string",
            "optional": true
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Danp

@df-cgdm You are correct. That feature isn't currently available via the REST APIs as previously mentioned by Julien earlier in this thread.

irtaza9

@Danp For now I'm going with JSON-RPC for only VM creation and for listings I'm using rest-apis. When XO6 will release I'll change the endpoint with rest endpoint. @olivierlambert any expected release date for XO6?

olivierlambert

It's rolled out progressively: every bit of UI that's exposed will use the REST API, so both a getting more stuff every release. You can already use some bits of the REST API like you can already use XO 6 UI with /v6

julien-f

Yes, you can use JSON-RPC et REST APIs together for now

We will try to add support for CPU settings soon.

Also, expect things to accelerate in 2025 regarding the REST API.