I want to create the exact same VM I have on Azure console with Python SDK. Right now, I am facing i-CodePudding

The VM I can create now is via VS Code. I use the same image as the one in console VM. Now I want to run a user script which uses some files. When I login to the VS Code VM, it is empty, so obviously the use script isn't working. These are the VM Parameters that I am using..

def create_vm_parameters(vm_reference, compute_client, encoded_init_script, filename, nic_id):
"""Create the VM parameters structure.
"""
return {
    'location': LOCATION,
    'tags': {
        'Name': str(filename)
    },
    'os_profile': {
        'computer_name': VM_NAME,
        'admin_username': USERNAME,
        'admin_password': PASSWORD
    },
    'hardware_profile': {
        'vm_size': VM_TYPE
    },
    'storage_profile': {
        'image_reference': {
            'publisher': vm_reference['publisher'],
            'offer': vm_reference['offer'],
            'sku': vm_reference['sku'],
            'version': vm_reference['version']
        },
        'osDisk': {
            'createOption': 'FromImage'
        },
     },
    'network_profile': {
        'network_interfaces': [
            {
                'id': nic_id
            }
        ]
    },
    "userData": encoded_init_script,
}

CodePudding user response：

One way to achieve this would be to copy the data from the existing VM to a storage account, and then mount the storage account as a data disk to the new VM that you are creating using the Python SDK.

In the Python code, include the following in the storage_profile section of the VM parameters

'storage_profile': {
        'image_reference': {
            'publisher': vm_reference['publisher'],
            'offer': vm_reference['offer'],
            'sku': vm_reference['sku'],
            'version': vm_reference['version']
        },
        'osDisk': {
            'createOption': 'FromImage'
        },
        'dataDisks': [
            {
                'lun': 0,
                'createOption': 'Attach',
                'caching': 'ReadWrite',
                'diskSizeGB': 128,
                'managedDisk': {
                    'storageAccountType': 'Standard_LRS',
                    'id': '<storage-account-id>'
                }
            }
        ]
    },

replace with the ID of the storage account you created.

This should allow you to mount the storage account as a data disk to the new VM you are creating using the Python SDK. You can then access the data inside the VM by mounting the data disk.

CodePudding user response：

Solved this with VM Parameters: We

def create_vm_parameters(vm_reference, compute_client, encoded_init_script, filename, nic_id):
    """Create the VM parameters structure.
    """
    return {
        'location': LOCATION,
        'tags': {
            'Name': str(filename)
        },
        # 'os_profile': {
        #     'computer_name': VM_NAME,
        #     'admin_username': USERNAME,
        #     'admin_password': PASSWORD
        # },
        'hardware_profile': {
            'vm_size': VM_TYPE
        },
        'storage_profile': {
            # 'image_reference': {
            #     'publisher': vm_reference['publisher'],
            #     'offer': vm_reference['offer'],
            #     'sku': vm_reference['sku'],
            #     'version': vm_reference['version']
            # },
            'osDisk': {
                'osType': 'Linux',
                'name': '<Disk-Name>',
                'createOption': 'Attach',
                'managedDisk': {
                'id': '<resource-id>'
                },
                'caching': 'ReadWrite'
            }
        },
        'network_profile': {
            'network_interfaces': [
                {
                    'id': nic_id
                }
            ]
        },
        "userData": encoded_init_script,
    }

What I was doing here is including the image and OS references (which are now commented). Also, I took the snapshot of the existing OSDisk, and created another OSDisk(say, snap-OSDisk). Then attached this (snap-OSDisk) to this VM that is being created.

Obviously, if there is a better way to do this, I welcome it.