[Users] What is the best way to debug a VDSM hook?

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/26/2012 03:50 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 06/26/2012 03:40 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 06/26/2012 03:39 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>>> On 06/26/2012 03:16 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>> On 06/26/2012 01:55 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>>>>> I installed the hook smbios but it doesn't seem to be working. I was
>>>>> told earlier I needed to create a custom property to pass the data but
>>>>> that doesn't seem to be working. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I am
>>>>> looking for debugging hints on how to show what is being passed to the
>>>>> hook to confirm it is grabbing the correct info and what is being
>>>>> passed
>>>>> back to vdsm?
>>>>
>>>> do you see smbios when editing the VM custom properties in the UI?
>>>>
>>> No I manually added it using the following command.
>>>
>>> engine-config -s UserDefinedVMProperties='smbios=^.+$' --cver=3.1
>>
>> and after restarting the engine, do you see this options under custom
>> properties when editing a VM?
> Yes I do but I don't see the data being passed to the VM. So I need to
> try and trace though the process to see if I am missing a step to see why.

no worries - shahar already debugged it last week for you :)
you need this patch (even already backported to 3.1 branch)
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/5591/

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> Thanks
> Robert
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Robert
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=tree;f=vdsm_hooks/smbios;h=c61ce8e73dc66791eb0390be3e764541b34c1137;hb=HEAD
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Robert
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