Thanks! Haven't had time to try passing the diskOfferingId yet but here are the bugs:
CS-15305 bad deployVirtualMachine size parameter description in API docs CS-15306 deployVirtualMachine silently ignores size param without diskOfferingId KC On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Alena Prokharchyk <alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: > On 6/13/12 5:08 PM, "KC Braunschweig" <kcbraunschw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>I'm trying construct an API call that will create a new VM and at the >>same time create/attach a data disk for it to avoid having to create >>the VM, then create data disk, then attach, then reboot, blah blah. >> >>It seems like that should be pretty straightforward: >> >>http://download.cloud.com/releases/2.2.0/api_2.2.13/user/deployVirtualMach >>ine.html >> >>And that it should be as simple as passing a size parameter with the >>deployVirtualMachine command: >> >>"size - the arbitrary size for the DATADISK volume. Mutually >>exclusive with diskOfferingId" > > > The description of for the size parameter is not correct. Size has to be > specified along with the diskOfferingId, it just has to be the special > diskOffering - the one having size 0. You can create this kind of the disk > offering from the admin UI - Infrustructure->ServiceOfferings->Select Disk > offering option from the drop down list -> Add new -> Check "custom disk > size" checkbox > > Try passing size with diskOfferingId and see if it works. > > > > So we have 2 cloudStack bugs here (could you please file them): > > * api description is incorrect > * the API didn't throw any error when size was specified, but the disk > offering was missing. > > > -Alena. > > >> >>Although I was able to pass this and it seems to accept an integer >>value without error (passing something like '1GB' returns an error on >>invalid value) but I see no data disk being created or attached to the >>resulting VM (although the VM is created successfully). >> >>Any idea on what's going on here? >> >>BTW, this is for knife-cloudstack >>(https://github.com/CloudStack/knife-cloudstack) >> >> >>Thanks, >> >>KC >> > >
