SOLVED How start VM from shell or script?

[AndrewYu]

How start VM from shell or script?
Thanks.

 

[Samuel Tai]

You'll need the VM ID of the VM. Run midclt call vm.query | jq to find the ID of the VM. To start the VM, run midclt call vm.start <ID>.

 

[sretalla]

curl --user root:password -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://freenas.local/api/v2.0/vm/id/30/restart where 30 is the ID of the VM you want to restart/start/stop/poweroff/shutdown.

You can find the ID by doing this:
curl --user root:password -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://freenas.local/api/v2.0/vm

Of course you can find the example here:

CORE API Reference

Describes how to access the API documentation in TrueNAS CORE.

www.truenas.com

including many different scripting/programming language examples.

Or @Samuel Tai 's example works too if you're running the script locally.

 

[AndrewYu]

You'll need the VM ID of the VM. Run midclt call vm.query | jq to find the ID of the VM. To start the VM, run midclt call vm.start <ID>.

Thank you.

 

[blanchet]

This is a script to start VM by name

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
# start VM by name
# platform: TrueNAS-12

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
    echo "Syntax: `basename $0` vmname"
    exit 0
fi

# get VM name
VMNAME=$1

# get VM ID
ID=`midclt call vm.query |
     jq --raw-output '[.[] | { (.name): .id } ]' |
     grep $VMNAME |
     sed 's/.*\:\(.*\)/\1/'`

echo "Start '$VMNAME': id=$ID"
midclt call vm.start $ID