Hi, I'd still love the ability to query creation time for a VM - did you have any more info on Dominik's metadata field you mentioned?
How difficult would this be to add? Thanks, Victor Thanks, Victor On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:45 PM Victor Hooi <victorh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In our case, we have users clone templates via the Proxmox Web UI - so I > don't think setting the description field automatically there is an option. > (As in, not sure how you'd hook it into the Web UI - or is there another > way to have hooks/triggers for VMs created via the Web UI). > > What is Dominik's tags you're referring to? This seems interesting, and > maybe this request could be lumped in there. > > Thanks, > Victor > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:47 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lampre...@proxmox.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 6/9/20 11:13 PM, Victor Hooi wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there any chance of adding creation time as a queryable metadata >> field >> > for VMs/containers? >> > >> > The use-case for us is - we want to know the overall age of a machine, >> for >> > things like patching schedules etc. (We want to auto-kill machines >> beyond a >> > certain age). >> >> I thought about this too recently, initially I hoped that we could just >> return the >> "create time" of the config file as an really cheap and normally true >> creation time, >> but then remembered that our the pmxcfs saves only modification time and >> sets that >> for all, atime, mtime, ctime. >> >> As a workaround for now, you could use the "description" to save some >> structured >> data which includes this info, e.g., in JSON or the like format. >> >> I'd be open to have metadata field, maybe it could also host Dominik's >> tag he has >> in the works - so we'd only have one such field in the config. >> >> cheers, >> Thomas >> >> _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
