Bug 744156

Summary: [new content] Add information about watchdogs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: doc-Virtualization_Getting_Started_GuideAssignee: Jacquelynn East <jeast>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 6.2CC: ddutile, rlandman, sradvan
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URL: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Virtualiz ation_Getting_Started_Guide/ch04s03.html
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2011-10-07 09:53:40 UTC 
Description of problem:

Just reading the Virtualization Getting Started guide here:                

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Virtualiz
ation_Getting_Started_Guide/ch04s03.html                                        

Would it be a good idea to add the emulated watchdog devices here?         
Since RHEL 6.2, both i6300esb and ib700 should both be supported           
(and more importantly, working :-)                                         

Here is some representative text:                                          

=== Emulated watchdog devices ===                                          

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and above provide two emulated                
watchdog devices. A watchdog can be used to automatically                  
reboot a guest when it becomes overloaded or unresponsive.                 

The watchdog devices are supported by the following guest                  
operating system:                                                          

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and above,                                  
for i386 and x86_64 architectures.                                         

You will need to install the 'watchdog' package in the guest.              

The two devices are:                                                       

* i6300esb, an emulated Intel(TM) 6300 ESB PCI watchdog device.            
This is the recommended device to use.                                     

* ib700, an emulated iBase 700 ISA watchdog device.                        

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