Effort is made to ensure a VM always have a status and Unused VM statuses are removed

api/main.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import json
-import subprocess
 import pynetbox
 
 from uuid import uuid4
@@ -9,6 +8,7 @@ from flask import Flask, request
 from flask_restful import Resource, Api
 
 from common import counters
+from common.vm import VMStatus
 from common.request import RequestEntry, RequestType
 from config import (etcd_client, request_pool, vm_pool, host_pool, env_vars, image_storage_handler)
 from . import schemas
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class CreateVM(Resource):
                 "owner_realm": data["realm"],
                 "specs": specs,
                 "hostname": "",
-                "status": "",
+                "status": VMStatus.stopped,
                 "image_uuid": validator.image_uuid,
                 "log": [],
                 "vnc_socket": "",