[Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Allan" <dallan at redhat.com>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at 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?