On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:25:32PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I believe that the watchdogs we emulate today are not supported by a > majority of guests. BTW this is not true. The two watchdog devices are supported by all Linux guests. Windows guests do not support them, but Windows lacks[1] any sort of watchdog framework so lack of device support is the least of your problems. There would be nothing for the device to plug into (unlike the /dev/watchdog API on Linux), nor is there any daemon to support it (unlike the 15 year old watchdog daemon on Linux). Rich. [1] Yes, this exists: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms856963.aspx but it requires a special version of Windows. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list