RE: heartbeat watchdog feature

[Ravindra K. <rav...@vm...>]

> Due the fact that my virtual machine is like a skeleton, I mean that from that many many things are removed for performance purposes, I wish to know if open-vm-tools are sufficient to be used for this kind of functionality I wish (Heartbeat and restart machine in case of loop/etc).
Yes.
> My virtual machine is not using vmxnet but e1000 driver, could I replace it with e1000 ?
e1000 is supported driver.


From: Prisco Farina [mailto:pri...@gm...]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 8:28 AM
To: ope...@li...
Subject: heartbeat watchdog feature

Hi guys,
 I am looking to https://github.com/drothlis/open-vm-tools/tree/master/lib/rpcOut and in particular
 I have interest to use openvm tools in my virtual machine for the watchdog feature.

As far as I understood (I hope correctly) vSphere supports this kind of service on host but it is required to install vmware tools.

Due the fact that my virtual machine is like a skeleton, I mean that from that many many things are removed for performance purposes, I wish to know if open-vm-tools are sufficient to be used for this kind of functionality I wish (Heartbeat and restart machine in case of loop/etc).

In the directories I have seen rpcIn and rpcOut that probably are modules I need for heartbeat, I have interest to know how I can compile just these one and install it on my machine.

My virtual machine is not using vmxnet but e1000 driver, could I replace it with e1000 ?

Can you help?
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Thank you very much for clarifications/support :)
Prisco