[ale] /dev/watchdog inside a guest VM

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed May 5 10:41:27 EDT 2021


C6 isn't systemd capable

On May 5, 2021 10:05:48 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> 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?
>> 
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma]
>(rev 02)
>> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA
>[Natoma/Triton II]
>> 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE
>[Natoma/Triton II]
>> 00:01.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB
>[Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
>> 00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Red Hat, Inc. QXL paravirtual
>graphic card (rev 04)
>> 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device
>> 00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio SCSI
>> 00:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio block device
>> 00:06.0 Unclassified device [00ff]: Red Hat, Inc Virtio memory
>balloon
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