[ovirt-users] help with sriov vdsm hook?

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 05:44:35PM -0400, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 05/08/2014 02:54 PM, Darrell Budic wrote:
> >Anyone gotten the SRIOV hook to work with Solar Flare 10g cards? Any advice?
> >
> >I've gotten the hooks installed on my host nodes, and added a string to my engine. The card is up in SRIOV "mode" on the host and virtual instances are available. I can see the hooks running in the vdsm logs, but can't tell what they are doing from there. They are not attaching the sriov card instance to my VM though, so I'm at a loss.
> 
> you can compare the generated livirt xml send to qemu by vdsm and
> compare to what you expected to happen by the hook.

You may also share the bit of vdsm.log from vmCreate until failure.

> 
> >
> >As an aside, it'd be really nice to have hooks register with the engine and add proper custom strings to the setup. Failing that, some explicit documentation on EXACTLY what string should be used for the hook would be nice. My first pass at it resulted in an improper string that caused my host to crash/hang and reboot when I attempted to start a VM with it the first time.
> 
> each hook has a README - maybe send a patch to elaborate more on the
> one not clear enough to you?

I think that Darrel means something like

    Bug 1086329 - [RFE] semi-automatic hook registration

(or maybe a bit less fancy). It would be cool to add some introspection
to the hook framework, so that Engine learns about available hooks and
their custom properties from the nodes.

> 
> >
> >Speaking of which, I added my custom string to UserDefinedVMProperties, not CustomDeviceProperties. Was that correct?
> 
> yes. it was correct.