Solved: you need to use the template id, not the uuid.

I'm trying to piece together a way to deploy VMs using xo-cli. Ansible seems like a sensible choice, but at the moment I'm just trying the basics from shell. Listing object is working fine, but I can't seem to get creating a VM to work.

This works:
npx xo-cli --list-objects type=VM-template uuid=d986ea98-09fa-4e9a-9ee6-e6c78119496f

But this fails:
npx xo-cli vm.create name_label="test" name_description="dsc" template=d986ea98-09fa-4e9a-9ee6-e6c78119496f bootaftercreate=false VIFs="json:[{\"network\":\"$NETUUID\"}]"
with error:
✖ no such VM-template d986ea98-09fa-4e9a-9ee6-e6c78119496f JsonRpcError: no such VM-template d986ea98-09fa-4e9a-9ee6-e6c78119496f

This might be related to me doing stuff in bash, but escaping the dashes or adding quotes around the string does not help.

Any ideas?

I'm just guessing here, but maybe something like this?
xo-cli --list-objects type=VM power_state=Halted | jq -r ".[].name_label"

Thanks for the clarification. No Skylake present, so I will proceed.

stormi said in "CROSSTalk" CPU vulnerabilty (cross-core data leak):

Intel just released updated microcode (actually it's a revert) for some models: https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases

I'll update the microcode_ctl package. The "older" microcode that is used instead is still recent enough to contain the fixes against CROSSTalk / SRBDS. Or so I had understood, but I can't find evidence about it.

So should I wait applying these updates? You seem to be unsure of which microcode version to distribute.