----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhorn...@redhat.com> > To: "Dave Allan" <dal...@redhat.com>, "Doron Fediuck" <dfedi...@redhat.com> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel@ovirt.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4:18:53 PM > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Watchdog support Feature > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dave Allan" <dal...@redhat.com> > > To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfedi...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel@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" <dal...@redhat.com> > > > > To: "Itamar Heim" <ih...@redhat.com> > > > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel@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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > >Engine-devel mailing list > > > > > >Engine-devel@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 > > > > > > 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. >
Makes sense, thanks. _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel