A list is not accepted. Json should start from {.

irwen-rescale · Yingchao Huang · commit 390540362e8d · 2019-07-22T10:50:27.000-07:00
diff --git a/SoftLayer/CLI/virt/create.py b/SoftLayer/CLI/virt/create.py
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ def cli(env, **args):
                 env.out(env.fmt(output))
                 raise exceptions.CLIHalt(code=1)
         if args['output_json']:
-            env.fout(json.dumps(result))
+            env.fout(json.dumps({'statuses': result}))
         else:
             for instance_data in result:
                 table = formatting.KeyValueTable(['name', 'value'])
