Proxmox power type not changing boot mode

[purvaldur]

I began by creating a VM in Proxmox and chose the “no media” option. On the first boot, since there was nothing bootable on the virtual hard drive, nor a “cd”, the VM defaulted to PXE boot where MAAS was able to commision it.

After commissioning, I deployed the VM through MAAS (after having configured the Proxmox power type) but discovered I made a slight mistake before deploying. No matter, I’ll just redeploy, I thought. However, now when I press “deploy” through the UI, MAAS powers on the VM just fine but the VM still defaults to booting into the hard drive instead of PXE booting. At the moment I have to manually PXE boot the VM through the Proxmox console whenever I want to re-commision/re-deploy a VM.

Is there anything I can do to make it so recommissioning/re-deploying a VM through the MAAS UI correctly makes the Proxmox VM PXE boot?

[Rihan]

From Proxmox, under the VM’s options, you can change the boot order.

[purvaldur]

That’s all well and good, however that still requires manual action every time I want to re-commission/re-deploy a machine.

Optimally the VM should boot from its hard drive normally (for example a regular reboot should not make the VM PXE boot).
Then, if I want to re-deploy a machine I would optimally simply click the buttons in MAAS and have the machine switch to PXE boot.

In other words, I’d like to have MAAS control the boot order so I wouldn’t have to go into the Proxmox settings and change the boot order every time I want to re-deploy. I can do this with regular IPMI and ESXi power types.

[billwear]

@purvaldur, this might be a feature request – but don’t change it yet! i’ll ask the team and see what they think, probably be a day or so.

[billwear]

@purvaldur, it’s a known limitation of the proxmox driver. you’d need to add a feature request to the “Features” category.