Generate VFIO MDEV Sliced PCI Devices

PUT/zstack/v1/pci-devices/{pciDeviceUuid}/actions

Request

cURL

curl --request PUT \
  --url '/v1/pci-devices/{pciDeviceUuid}/actions' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{}'

{
  "status": "ok",
  "method": "PUT",
  "path": "/v1/pci-devices/{pciDeviceUuid}/actions"
}

Headers

Authorization: OAuth the-session-uuid

Body

{
  "generateMdevDevices": {
    "mdevSpecUuid": "013f5f259daa3e119ec79496ed2f5697"
  },
  "systemTags": [],
  "userTags": []
}

systemTags and userTags fields can be omitted in the above example. They are listed to indicate that the body can contain these two fields.

Curl Example

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8" \
-H "Authorization: OAuth b86c9016b4f24953a9edefb53ca0678c" \
-X PUT -d '{"generateMdevDevices":{"mdevSpecUuid":"013f5f259daa3e119ec79496ed2f5697"}}' http://localhost:8080/zstack/v1/pci-devices/b5b60d1bc9353c948c635a500a044c97/actions

Parameter List

Name	Type	Location	Description	Starting Version
pciDeviceUuid	String	url	PCI device UUID	3.5.0
mdevSpecUuid	String	body(inside the generateMdevDevices structure)	MDEV device spec UUID	3.5.0
systemTags (Optional)	List	body	System tags	3.5.0
userTags (Optional)	List	body	User tags	3.5.0

API Response

This API returns an empty JSON structure {} on success. On error, the returned JSON contains an error field, for example:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "SYS.1001",
    "description": "A message or a operation timeout",
    "details": "Create VM on KVM timeout after 300s"
  }
}

SDK Examples

Java SDK

GenerateMdevDevicesAction action = new GenerateMdevDevicesAction();
action.pciDeviceUuid = "b5b60d1bc9353c948c635a500a044c97";
action.mdevSpecUuid = "013f5f259daa3e119ec79496ed2f5697";
action.sessionId = "b86c9016b4f24953a9edefb53ca0678c";
GenerateMdevDevicesAction.Result res = action.call();

Python SDK

GenerateMdevDevicesAction action = GenerateMdevDevicesAction()
action.pciDeviceUuid = "b5b60d1bc9353c948c635a500a044c97"
action.mdevSpecUuid = "013f5f259daa3e119ec79496ed2f5697"
action.sessionId = "b86c9016b4f24953a9edefb53ca0678c"
GenerateMdevDevicesAction.Result res = action.call()