fix: avoid recreation of storage devices during VM update

plugins/modules/proxmox_kvm.py

@@ -439,8 +439,6 @@ options:
   update:
     description:
       - If C(yes), the VM will be updated with new value.
-      - Cause of the operations of the API and security reasons, I have disabled the update of the following parameters
-      - C(net, virtio, ide, sata, scsi). Per example updating C(net) update the MAC address and C(virtio) create always new disk...
       - Update of C(pool) is disabled. It needs an additional API endpoint not covered by this module.
     type: bool
     default: 'no'
@@ -734,10 +732,12 @@ msg:
 """
 
 import re
+import string
 import time
 import traceback
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import quote
+from collections import defaultdict
 
 try:
     from proxmoxer import ProxmoxAPI
@@ -778,7 +778,6 @@ def get_vminfo(module, proxmox, node, vmid, **kwargs):
     global results  # noqa
     results = {}
     mac = {}
-    devices = {}
     try:
         vm = proxmox.nodes(node).qemu(vmid).config.get()
     except Exception as e:
@@ -796,25 +795,10 @@ def get_vminfo(module, proxmox, node, vmid, **kwargs):
             kwargs.update(kwargs[k])
             del kwargs[k]
 
-    # Split information by type
-    for k, v in kwargs.items():
-        if re.match(r"net[0-9]", k) is not None:
-            interface = k
-            k = vm[k]
-            k = re.search("=(.*?),", k).group(1)
-            mac[interface] = k
-        if (
-            re.match(r"virtio[0-9]", k) is not None or re.match(r"ide[0-9]", k) is not None
-            or re.match(r"scsi[0-9]", k) is not None or re.match(r"sata[0-9]", k) is not None
-        ):
-            device = k
-            k = vm[k]
-            k = re.search("(.*?),", k).group(1)
-            devices[device] = k
-
     results["mac"] = mac
-    results["devices"] = devices
+    results["devices"] = _extract_devices(vm)
     results["vmid"] = int(vmid)
+    results["_raw"] = vm
 
 
 def settings(module, proxmox, vmid, node, name, **kwargs):
@@ -882,18 +866,17 @@ def create_vm(
         urlencoded_ssh_keys = quote(kwargs["sshkeys"], safe="")
         kwargs["sshkeys"] = str(urlencoded_ssh_keys)
 
-    # If update, don't update disk (virtio, ide, sata, scsi) and network interface.
+    for item in [kwargs[i] for i in ["scsi", "virtio", "ide", "sata"] if i in kwargs]:
-    # Pool parameter not supported by qemu/<vmid>/config endpoint on "update" (PVE 6.2),
+        devices = _extract_devices(item)
-    # only with "create"
+
+    # If update, ensure existing disks are not recreated.
     if update:
-        if "virtio" in kwargs:
+        for k, v in devices.items():
-            del kwargs["virtio"]
+            if results["devices"].get(k):
-        if "sata" in kwargs:
+                kwargs[k.rstrip(string.digits)][k] = "{0}:{1},{2}".format(
-            del kwargs["sata"]
+                    results["devices"][k]["storage_id"], results["devices"][k]["storage_opts"],
-        if "scsi" in kwargs:
+                    ",".join(devices[k]["opts"])
-            del kwargs["scsi"]
+                )
-        if "ide" in kwargs:
-            del kwargs["ide"]
 
     # Convert all dict in kwargs to elements.
     for k in list(kwargs.keys()):
@@ -1281,6 +1264,19 @@ def main():
             elif not node_check(proxmox, node):
                 module.fail_json(msg="node '{}' does not exist in cluster".format(node))
 
+            if not clone:
+                get_vminfo(
+                    module,
+                    proxmox,
+                    node,
+                    vmid,
+                    ide=module.params["ide"],
+                    net=module.params["net"],
+                    sata=module.params["sata"],
+                    scsi=module.params["scsi"],
+                    virtio=module.params["virtio"]
+                )
+
             create_vm(
                 module,
                 proxmox,
@@ -1353,18 +1349,6 @@ def main():
                 watchdog=module.params["watchdog"]
             )
 
-            if not clone:
-                get_vminfo(
-                    module,
-                    proxmox,
-                    node,
-                    vmid,
-                    ide=module.params["ide"],
-                    net=module.params["net"],
-                    sata=module.params["sata"],
-                    scsi=module.params["scsi"],
-                    virtio=module.params["virtio"]
-                )
             if update:
                 module.exit_json(
                     changed=True, vmid=vmid, msg="VM {} with vmid {} updated".format(name, vmid)
@@ -1544,5 +1528,21 @@ def main():
             )
 
 
+def _extract_devices(item):
+    devices = defaultdict(dict)
+    for k, v in item.items():
+        if re.match(r"(scsi|virtio|ide|sata)[0-9]", k):
+            devices[k]["opts"] = []
+            for val in v.split(","):
+                if len(val.split(":")) == 2:
+                    storage = val.split(":")
+                    devices[k]["storage_id"] = storage[0]
+                    devices[k]["storage_opts"] = storage[1]
+                else:
+                    devices[k]["opts"].append(val)
+
+    return devices
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()