----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Allan" <dallan(a)redhat.com>
To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:42:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:06:44AM -0500, Doron Fediuck wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Allan" <dallan(a)redhat.com>
> > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > 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
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> > > >
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Thanks Dave.
> Do you happen do know why the shutdown action is not recommended?
Yes--it requires guest cooperation which it's unlikely to get if the
guest has gotten into a state where the watchdog fires.
Dave
Yep, the guest kernel should handle an ACPI signal. I don't know in what circumstances
would that work, but vdsm does not support it either, so that decision is already made.
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