On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:12:21PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Monday, September 16, 2013 02:09:43 PM John Schmitt wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > > > VMware platform does not currently implement hardware watchdog device so > > > you will need to enable software watchdog in the kernel if you want to > > > use /dev/watchdog. > > > > I did not know about that. Thank you for telling me, this will probably > > help me out. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchdog/ > > I am not sure about that project, I meant enabling SOFT_WATCHDOG option in > the > kernel tree under drivers/watchdog. > > Thanks, > Dmitry
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. I'm using Fedora 19 so I can just yum install watchdog, systemctl enable it, and done. Is there a way to tell at run time wither SOFT_WATCHDOG was enabled? Without install this watchdog package I had no /dev/watchdog file. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
