Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature

From: "Dave Allan" <dallan(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 7:23:25 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:34:27AM -0800, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 24/01/2013 06:19, Laszlo Hornyak wrote: > >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 > >_______________________________________________ > >Engine-devel mailing list > &gt;Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > >http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel > > > > looks like a nice, simple, addition. > dave, anyone more intimate with the watchdog worth giving another > look? I had a look at the ovirt feature page and asked some libvirt folks as well, and it all looks good to me except that the libvirt documentation says that an event when watchdog fires will be added in the future. That event has been added. The watchdog should work pretty much identically to the physical world: configure the virtual watchdog card in the guest hardware description and install the watchdog daemon in the guest. Dave