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Show live usage: CPU % and Mem % in the table, in-use on the info screen
The guest table gets two last columns, CPU % (cpu * 100) and Mem %
(mem / maxmem), each with one decimal. They show "-" for a guest that
is not running or lacks the field.

The info screen's Resources table gets a header and an "In use"
column: CPU %, memory MiB with %, swap for containers, and rootfs used
GiB with % for containers. VM disks show "-", because the API reports
0 without guest-agent disk info. The info screen reads status and
usage in one status/current call (new cli.current).

After an action, the acted guest's status and usage both come from
status/current, so a guest that has just started no longer shows the
lagging listing's 0.0 %.

One blind-written test expected a VM's CPU cell to read "4 cores". VMs
have always shown sockets ("4 cores × 1 socket", as the resources
spec and its tests define), so that expectation was corrected.

Closes #12

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 23:52:32 +01:00

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cv4pve-cli-tui

CI

Textual TUI for cv4pve-cli: list Proxmox VE guests (VMs and LXC), start/shutdown/stop/reboot them, and change cores, memory and disk size. The table shows CPU % and Mem % of running guests and the info screen shows in-use values (refresh with g).

It shells out to cv4pve-cli and uses its current context (cv4pve-cli config use <name>); it stores no credentials itself. Tested with cv4pve-cli 2.4.0.

Run

uv run cv4pve-tui
Key Action
s start
S shutdown (confirm)
x stop - hard power-off (confirm)
r reboot (confirm)
Enter info: resources (CPU, memory, swap, disks), backups, backup job, network (config and runtime IPs)
Enter then e in info: edit cores / memory / grow a disk (disk growth asks again; it cannot be undone)
Enter then b in info: backup now (snapshot, zstd, storage choice); a there = also show backups of earlier guests that had the same VMID
Enter then n in info: edit network (bridge, VLAN, firewall, IPv4/IPv6; VM IP via cloud-init at next boot); u there = undo the last network change of this guest (this session only)
Enter then p / R / D in info: take a snapshot (name, description, VM: include RAM) / roll back to the snapshot under the cursor (confirms; starts the guest again if it is running) / delete the snapshot under the cursor (confirms)
t shell in a running LXC container (ssh -t root@<node> pct enter <vmid>)
g refresh
c switch cv4pve-cli context (cluster)
q quit

Warning: link changes (bridge, VLAN, firewall) apply immediately on a running guest and can cut its network (and DNS for others if the guest is your DNS server). IP changes on a running container may need a reboot of the container (seen: static -> DHCP gave no IPv4 until a reboot).

The shell key needs key-based root SSH to the PVE node (LXC only).

Switching context runs cv4pve-cli config use, which changes cv4pve-cli's global current context: other shells and scripts follow, and it stays after the app exits.

A ! in the first column marks a guest that no backup job covers (Proxmox's not-backed-up list); the frame's bottom border shows how many.

Empty fields in the edit dialog are left unchanged. If a CPU/memory change cannot be hot-plugged, the app tells you it applies at the next reboot.

Development

uv sync
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check src tests && uv run ruff format --check src tests

Tests mock cv4pve-cli; they never touch a cluster. CI (.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml) runs the same commands on every PR into main; ruff is pinned in the dev group so local runs and CI check the same rules. Design: docs/plans/guest-tui-mvp.md.