Proxmox - Specifiying mounts causes LXC creation to fail

[cypher0n3]

Summary

Specifying mounts as part of community.general.proxmox causes the LXC container creation to fail.

Excluding the mounts specification allows the container to be created. I have tried various different storage types and different ways of specifying the dict, but none have worked thus far.

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

proxmox

Ansible Version

$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.12.4]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/user/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/user/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.4 (main, Mar 23 2022, 23:05:40) [GCC 11.2.0]
  jinja version = 3.0.3
  libyaml = True

Community.general Version

$ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
# /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible_collections
Collection        Version
----------------- -------
community.general 4.7.0 

Configuration

No response

OS / Environment

Proxmox 7.1-12

Steps to Reproduce

- name: Setup bootstrap server
  hosts: localhost
  become: false
  tasks:
    - name: Create bootstrap-srv LXC container
      community.general.proxmox:
        api_user: "api_user"
        api_host: "pve01"
        api_token_id: "ansible"
        api_token_secret: "secret"
        vmid: 220
        description: Bootstrap LXC container
        password: "password"
        node: "pve01"
        cores: 1
        cpus: 1
        memory: 3072
        hostname: bootstrap-srv
        netif:
          net0: "name=eth0,gw=10.100.100.1,ip=10.100.100.22/24,bridge=vmbr0"
        nameserver: "10.100.100.5"
        searchdomain: "example.com"
        ostemplate: "cephfs:vztmpl/ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz"
        mounts:
          mp0: "CephVMs:6,mp=/data"
        storage: "CephVMs"
        pubkey: "{{ ssh_pubkey }}"
        state: present
        timeout: 90
        unprivileged: true

Expected Results

Expected the LXC container to be created with the specified mount: /data mount point within the container, 6GB of space allocated, stored on the "CephVM" storage location

Actual Results

The full traceback is:
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload_boh76q8u/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py", line 653, in main
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload_boh76q8u/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py", line 480, in create_instance
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 155, in create
    return self.post(*args, **data)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 146, in post
    return self(args)._request("POST", data=data)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 129, in _request
    errors=(self._store["serializer"].loads_errors(resp) or {}),
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/proxmoxer/backends/https.py", line 180, in loads_errors
    return json.loads(response.text)["errors"]
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "api_host": "pve01",
            "api_password": null,
            "api_token_id": "ansible",
            "api_token_secret": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "api_user": "api_user",
            "clone": null,
            "clone_type": "opportunistic",
            "cores": 1,
            "cpus": 1,
            "cpuunits": null,
            "description": "Bootstrap LXC container",
            "disk": null,
            "features": null,
            "force": false,
            "hookscript": null,
            "hostname": "bootstrap-srv",
            "ip_address": null,
            "memory": 3072,
            "mounts": {
                "mp0": "CephVMs:6,mp=/data"
            },
            "nameserver": "10.100.100.5",
            "netif": {
                "net0": "name=eth0,gw=10.100.100.1,ip=10.100.100.121/24,bridge=vmbr0"
            },
            "node": "pve01",
            "onboot": null,
            "ostemplate": "cephfs:vztmpl/ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz",
            "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "pool": null,
            "proxmox_default_behavior": "no_defaults",
            "pubkey": "ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 REDACTED",
            "purge": false,
            "searchdomain": "example.com",
            "state": "present",
            "storage": "containers",
            "swap": null,
            "timeout": 90,
            "unprivileged": true,
            "validate_certs": false,
            "vmid": 220
        }
    },
    "msg": "Creation of lxc VM 220 failed with exception: 'errors'"
}

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[nxet]

This happens because of restrictions in the Proxmox API (docs, PUT tab).
In version 5. this returns a proper error message in ansible.

Long story short you can not edit mountpoints configs unless you authenticate as root@pam with api_password set.
I haven't had luck with API tokens either.

EDIT: nevermind, this shouldn't happen, since the restriction is for non-volume mount points only

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