XO and terraform

wezke

hi guys

im rather new to XCP and Terraform.

I am an adult student in system and network engineering (last year) and for my project i have chosen to deploy VMs with terraform. configuring with most likely ansible.

So far i am able to deploy a VM however at first run of my ''playbook'' it creates the VM and no disk is being created. second run the disk is created and attached but in a diconnected state.

then i need to shut down the VM in XO and run my terraform template once again, the VM is being powered on and the disk is connected.

im not sure what causes this behaviour.

here is my current template.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    xenorchestra = {
      source  = "terra-farm/xenorchestra"
      version = "~> 0.26.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "xenorchestra" {
  url      = "wss://"my_xo_ip"
  username = "myusername"
  password = "Mypassword"
  insecure = true
}

# Fetch the template
data "xenorchestra_template" "vm_template" {
  name_label = "Terraform_Template_Win_Core"
}

# Fetch the network
data "xenorchestra_network" "network" {
  name_label = "eth0"
}

# Fetch the storage repository
data "xenorchestra_sr" "sr" {
  name_label = "Local storage"
}

# Create the VM with explicit dependency on the storage repository
resource "xenorchestra_vm" "vm1" {
  name_label = "terraform_VM"
  template   = data.xenorchestra_template.vm_template.id
  cpus       = 2
  memory_max = 4294967296

  # Network configuration
  network {
    network_id = data.xenorchestra_network.network.id
  }

  # Disk configuration with explicit dependency on storage repository
  disk {
    sr_id      = data.xenorchestra_sr.sr.id
    size       = 10737418240
    name_label = "VM root volume"
  }

  # CD-ROM configuration
  cdrom {
    id = "09ab237e-9a35-4d88-b787-24c1b6fa7779"
  }

  # Automatically power on the VM
  power_state = "Running"

  # Ensure the VM depends on the successful creation of the storage repository
  depends_on = [data.xenorchestra_sr.sr]
}

its also suboptimal as i then would need to run the windows ISO from the XO console..

any tips would be greatly appreciated.

nathanael-h

@wezke Hello, can you switch to this latest version of the provider, ensure that your configuration is still valid or fix what would be needed, and report how it behaves?

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/vatesfr/xenorchestra/latest

wezke

@nathanael-h

changed block provider to the latest version

terraform {
  required_providers {
    xenorchestra = {
      source  = "vatesfr/xenorchestra"
      version = "0.29.0"
    }
  }
}

acts just the same way i must say.

Cyrille

@wezke Hi, I have no problem running your terraform plan, maybe there is a problem with the template you are using? How did you create it?

There is no warning during the tf execution?

wezke

@Cyrille

ive made the template from running an Windows 2022 from my iso storage untill initial process was installed, shutdown the vm and created a template.

Edit: you are correct, using a builtin template has no issue's.
going to solve that problem first

thank you for the support

Cyrille

@wezke you are welcome. let us know if you find the explanation for the problem with the template