While no problem is known with having an empty machine string in the configuration and it was already possible setting an empty machine manually via 'qm set', the behavior changed because of commit 919e69d0 ("machine: add check_and_pin_machine_string() helper") and there is potential for problematic edge cases. Restore the previous behavior.
Pinning is also required when there is no given machine type, so the call to check_and_pin_machine_string() should stay unconditional. For update, pinning was recently added by commit 7a9570f3 ("api: update vm config: pin machine version when switching to windows os type"), so bring that in-line with the behavior for create too. Another idea would've been to just return the default machine in check_and_pin_machine_string(), but that would also be a change in behavior. In particular, the default depends on the arch, so an empty machine type will pick the default machine for the currently configured arch even when the arch is later changed. Reported-by: Daniel Herzig <d.her...@proxmox.com> Fixes: 919e69d0 ("machine: add check_and_pin_machine_string() helper") Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com> --- PVE/API2/Qemu.pm | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm index 8acd8d9f..45fe6ea6 100644 --- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm +++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm @@ -1243,8 +1243,9 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({ } # always pin Windows' machine version on create, they get confused too easily - $conf->{machine} = PVE::QemuServer::Machine::check_and_pin_machine_string( + my $machine_string = PVE::QemuServer::Machine::check_and_pin_machine_string( $conf->{machine}, $conf->{ostype}); + $conf->{machine} = $machine_string if $machine_string; $conf->{lock} = 'import' if $live_import_mapping; @@ -2120,9 +2121,10 @@ my $update_vm_api = sub { && !$modified->{machine} # detects deletion ) { eval { - $conf->{pending}->{machine} = + my $machine_string = PVE::QemuServer::Machine::check_and_pin_machine_string( $conf->{machine}, $param->{ostype}); + $conf->{pending}->{machine} = $machine_string if $machine_string; }; print "automatic pinning of machine version failed - $@" if $@; } -- 2.39.5 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel