----- Original Message -----
From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:43:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:56:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature
>
> Hi Doron,
>
> If the watchdog is set to action="reset" and you break the kernel,
> the VM will stay in UP state while waiting for the watchdog to
> reset
> the VM, and will still be in UP state while rebooting. So in theory
> engine will not be notified about a crash.
> This behavior is different when the action="poweroff" because the
> watchdog will really put the VM in a Down state and it is engine's
> job to restart it if HA as soon as it receives the notification
> from
> VDSM.
>
Thanks. Just note that poweroff requires guest co-operation
which we loose when kernel crashes. That's why it's not recommended.
That's the shutdown.
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsWatchdog
I always confuse the two :) Fortunately we will only have one.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:40:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature
> >
> > Hi Laszlo,
> > Looks very useful. Any thoughts on what engine will do while
> > if the VM is defined as HA while the watchdog is resetting it?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>
> > > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:25:03 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I hope everyone is satisfied with the spec, please read it
> > > through
> > > for the last time and I will move it to implementation phase
> > > soon.
> > >
> > > Thx,
> > > Laszlo
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>
> > > > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:19:57 PM
> > > > Subject: Watchdog support Feature
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Watchdog support in engine will add watchdog to the ovirt UI
> > > > and
> > > > REST
> > > > API. Watchdog cards will be mainly used in HA vm's.
> > > >
> > > >
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Watchdog_engine_support
> > > >
> > > > Your feedback is welcome!
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Laszlo
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