Re: /dev/watchdog

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

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