It is now possible to search for VMs by the information in the description field: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526471
Confirmed: Able to search for VMs by information in the description field. Updated Admin Guide appendix on Searching for VMs: Property = "description"; Type = "String", Description (Reference) = "Keywords or text describing the virtual machine, optionally used when creating the virtual machine."
Documentation Link ------------------------------ http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.4/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#Searching_for_virtual_machines What Changed ------------------------------ The following topic was revised to include this feature. Property, Type, and Description (Reference) have been added for search property 'description' in table E.11. Searching for Virtual Machines. Searching for Virtual Machines [ 8315-626339 ] Updated revision history: [ 30102-627009 ] NVR ------------------------------ Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-Administration_Guide-3.4-web-en-US-3.4-19.el6eng Moving to ON_QA.
verified in the 3.4 release.