The watchdog drivers are present in the linux-image-extra-*-virtual package. Since they are not added installed by default to virtual installed, they must be manually installed by issuing the following command in the virtual machine.
sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-virtual Ubuntu disables by default all watchdog devices, so once you've installed the watchdog daemon, you'll have to add your device's driver to your /etc/module -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642930 Title: linux-image-virtual - No watchdog drivers enabled. Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In KVM there is support for two different watchdog hardwares so it can reboot the VM if the machine stops responding, this is all pretty useless when the virtual kernel lacks support for watchdogs. =) (Tested on Lucid) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/642930/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
