Bug 518088

Summary:	[LTC 5.5 FEAT] Backport Intel watchdog emulation [202012]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Lawrence Lim <llim>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.5	CC:	jjarvis, rjones, tburke, tools-bugs, virt-maint, ykaul
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	5.5
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Last Closed:	2009-10-08 07:42:03 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	481160

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2009-08-18 20:30:27 UTC

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Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[202012]
a. Name of Feature:	Backport Intel watchdog emulation
b. Feature Description
Backport Intel watchdog emulation in upstream qemu to 5.4 kvm

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	LTC
Architectures:
x86
x86_64

Arch Specificity: Both
Delivery Mechanism: Backport
Category:	Xen
Request Type:	Driver - Feature from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	2
f. Severity: Medium
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	3rd party code
g. Component Version Target:	qemu 0.11

3. Business Case
Increase the RAS capabilities of KVM virtualization solutions by allowing guest OSes to use an
emulated watchdog that can take action when the GuestOS encounters a critical error.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Stephanie Glass, sglass.com, 512-838-9284

Technical contact(s):
Ryan Harper, raharper.com

IBM Manager:
Warren Grunbok II, grunbok.com

Comment 2 Dor Laor 2009-10-08 07:42:03 UTC

It's an identical dup of #513829.
I'm closing this one since the previous one has a fully description and has dependency for libvirt support

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 513829 ***