Dev: please reproduce the issue if possible.

I am not able to reproduce the issue. Virt-who 0.19 is able to parse values of the 'filter_hosts' config parameter correctly.

The filter_hosts configuration parameter will select only hypervisors with hypervisor_ids matching the value(s) given to it.

In my reproducer using the value for 'filter_hosts' of (less the single quotes)
'"abc.caidan.local","xyz.caidan.local"', results in only the hypervisors with hostnames "abc.caidan.local" and "xyz.caidain.local" to be sent.

I've also verified that using a 'filter_hosts' value of (less the single quotes) 'abc.caidan.local,xyz.caidan.local' behaves the same as above as well.

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It is worth noting that the configuration parameters 'filter_hosts' and similar ('exclude_hosts'), match against whatever the hypervisor_id is set to. So with a 'hypervisor_id' setting of 'hostname', 'filter_hosts' will match the hostnames retrieved from the server.


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At this point I would suggest removing the 'filter_hosts' parameter (as you have),
setting the 'hypervisor_id' to 'hostname' (as you have), and running the following, to see what virt-who has identified the hostnames as:

'virt-who --print 2>/dev/null | python -m json.tool | grep uuid'

That should help to identify if perhaps there is a mismatch in what virt-who is gathering as the hostnames and what is expected (used in the filter).


Please let me know if you are able to solve the issue using the above.

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