NMI watchdog is disabled on VMware guest
Issue
- Executing
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog, then kernel returns:
-bash: echo: write error: Unknown error 524
- Adding
kernel.nmi_watchdog = 1in /etc/sysctl.conf and then running$sysctl -pin cli.
sysctl: setting key "kernel.nmi_watchdog": Unknown error 524
kernel.nmi_watchdog = 1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x
- VMware guest
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