[ale] /dev/watchdog inside a guest VM

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Wed May 5 10:08:35 EDT 2021


I don't think CentOS 6 based nodes have systemd.

On 5/5/21 10:05 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> Doesn't systemd have this as a setting for all unit files?
> I'm confused. You have a VM guest that isn't 100% stable?  I've only seen that with Windows and only when the underlying storage hardware was failing.
> 
> 
> On 5/5/21 9:35 AM, Chris Fowler via Ale wrote:
>> I want to configure watchdog in CentOS 6 at Digital Ocean to force a restart when non-responsive.  I'm not sure if "watchdog" hardware exists in the guest.
>> I don't want to modprobe each one until I get a hit because this is a production system.   Any ideas?


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