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On Tuesday, 15 July 2025 at 12:51, ci4ic4 <ci4...@proton.me> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 15 July 2025 at 10:47, Thomas Klausner w...@netbsd.org wrote:
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> > Hi!
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> > Is anyone using qemu-guest-agent?
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> Yes,
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> > I wanted to set it up in a virtual environment, but the defaults don't
> > work (i.e. without a config file):
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> > # /etc/rc.d/qemu-guest-agent start
> > Starting qemu_guest_agent.
> > 1752572488.279750: critical: error opening channel '/dev/tty00': Device not
> > configured
> > 1752572488.279898: critical: failed to create guest agent channel
> > 1752572488.279972: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel
> > 1752572488.280036: critical: error initializing guest agent
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> > the package does not install an example config, nor could I find one
> > in the distribution tarball, and I don't know what I should use as a
> > config.
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> There is no config file as far as I understand it - it is the command line
> parameters:
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> command_args="-d -m isa-serial -p /dev/tty00 -r -t /var/run -f
> /var/run/${name}.pid"
> ...
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> from /etc/rc.d/qemu-quest-agent, so I have:
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> # ps axll | grep qemu-ga
> 0 556 1 0 85 0 26752 2032 poll Isl ? 0:00.00 /usr/pkg/bin/qemu-ga -d -m
> isa-serial -p /dev/tty00 -r -t /var/run -f /var/run/qemu_guest_agent.pid
> ...
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> This VM runs under ProxMox and has a serial port added to the configuration -
> as a socket, which appears as the only option anyway, I have no idea how it
> is used. In the options setup the QEMU guest agent is enabled, usually as ISA
> - as it shows above - although it apparently runs the same if defined as
> VirtIO.
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> The graphics device is defined as SPICE and using it this way is quite
> reasonable, with perfectly working sound and (llvmpipe) 3D acceleration. The
> only trouble I am having is that I can't get more than 1280x768, for some
> reason (it is using VESA).
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> > Thanks,
> > Thomas
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> FWIW, Chavdar
(for some reason, sent twice by the web client, no idea why).
I mean, there is no configuration file in the package, of course.
