Not a bug! I have forgotten to add the socket in the start script :(
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1668556 Title: QEMU Guest Agent service fails to start on Windows 10 RS2 preview Status in QEMU: New Bug description: The "QEMU Guest Agent" service cannot be started on Windows 10 RS2 preview build. After starting the service this error message is displayed: "Windows could not start QEMU Guest Agent service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." Output from the Windows System event log: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <Events><Event xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event'><System><Provider Name='Service Control Manager' Guid='{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}' EventSourceName='Service Control Manager'/><EventID Qualifiers='49152'>7009</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>2</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime='2017-02-28T09:39:35.713939500Z'/><EventRecordID>1406</EventRecordID><Correlation/><Execution ProcessID='568' ThreadID='964'/><Channel>System</Channel><Computer>LT-WIN10-64</Computer><Security/></System><EventData><Data Name='param1'>30000</Data><Data Name='param2'>QEMU Guest Agent</Data><Binary>510045004D0055002D00470041000000</Binary></EventData></Event></Events> The "QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider" service is running successfully. It worked on Windows 10 RS1 (before the upgrade). QEMU Guest Agent version: Installed from virtio-win-0.1.126_amd64 which was built from master branch with latest commit (8aaf403) - https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows Windows version (upgraded from RS1): Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview Evaluation copy. Build 15019.rs_prerelease.170121-1513 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1668556/+subscriptions