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["Xavier L." <642930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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)

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