[Users] Using the qemu guest agent

[Karli Sjöberg]

tis 2013-09-17 klockan 00:42 +0300 skrev Itamar Heim:


On 09/03/2013 02:34 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I´ve trying to use qemu-ga in several different guests, Win7, 2008R2,
> Fedora 18, and haven´t been able to get the agent to respond to
> anything. Have managed to have the Windows version log some debugging:
> 1378199587.125000: debug: check
> 1378199587.125000: debug: prepare
> 1378199587.656250: debug: check
> 1378199587.656250: debug: prepare
>
> But when installing the agent in Fedora, even when editing the
> service-file to include "-v (for verbose logging) -l (log file)
> /path/to/file.log", it doesn´t say anything at all. The only messages
> logged are from when you stop the service:
> 1378206062.602118: debug: received signal num 15, quitting
> 1378206105.557416: debug: received signal num 15, quitting
> 1378206245.844695: debug: received signal num 15, quitting
>
> No other messages logged. Information about the agent is sparse, and
> uncertain if relevant since development progresses rapidly, which is a
> good thing, but makes it harder to wrap your head around. Have tried to
> use examples on "http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent"
> <http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent> for ways to test from
> Host if agent is responding, e.g:
> echo "{'execute':'guest-info'}" | socat stdio,ignoreeof
> unix-connect:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/TestVM.org.qemu.guest_agent.0
>
> Yielded no "return" and nothing logged in any guest. Have installed
> ovirt-guest-agent and spice-vdagent in both Windows- and Fedora clients
> and that works perfectly, so the virtio-serial config/drivers are OK in
> general, it´s just qemu-ga that´s troublesome.
>
> Is there anyone here that´s managed getting qemu-ga working in any guest
> at all?
>
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was this resolved?


No, I never got any replies and don´t know what I can do to investigate the issue further. If someone has any suggestions, I´m up for testing, for sure!

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Karli Sjöberg
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8)
S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone:  +46-(0)18-67 15 66
karli.sjoberg at slu.se<mailto:karli.sjoberg at adm.slu.se>
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