On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:53:54PM +1300, Liviu Elama wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a 2 node hosted engine cluster using 3.4 beta3 on centos 6.5 and I'm
> trying to use smbios hook(first try to use a hook) and I can't see the
> smbios key in custom properties when I edit a VM.
>
> I have installed the vdsm-hook-smbios on both hosts and restarted vdsm and
> restarted the engine as well.
> I can see the hooks available on each hosts from the engine GUI but I can't
> see the custom property to modify at VM level.
>
> Can anyone advise if I'm doing the right thing here or what logs should I
> provide for debugging ?

You have to explicitly enabled your custom property in Engine's
database.

See http://www.ovirt.org/Vdsm_Hooks#VM-level_hooks for an example how
this can be done with the engine-config utility. You could make your
users cozy by limiting their input to the likes of

    {'serial': '1234'}^{'vendor': 'oVirt'}

or be lazy and allow everything

    engine-config -s "UserDefinedVMProperties=smbios=.*

Dan.