My mistake - it was the V3 client that was passing the hints in the wrong part of the body
** Changed in: nova Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368176 Title: Scheduler hints broken in V2.1 API Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Invalid Bug description: The v2.1 scheduler_hints plugin is broken, as it tries to extract the hints from the request_body rather than the server_dict https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/compute/plugins/v3/scheduler_hints.py#L42-L45 The hints value in the request body is another layer down in the "server" element There are no V2.1 unit tests for the scheduler hints, so this is not picked up by testing at the moment. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1368176/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp