Just got almost the same Ubuntu 16.04 as guest on Centos 7 host, all will latest updates.
Execute of virsh qemu-agent-command inetgw2 '{"execute":"guest-fsfreeze-freeze"}' failed with agent not available ( or something like this), but fsfreeze executed in OS Apr 7 02:28:54 inetgw2 qemu-ga: info: guest-fsfreeze called snapshot was created after this virsh qemu-agent-command inetgw2 '{"execute":"guest-fsfreeze-thaw"}' failed too with agent not available So Ubuntu 16.04 VM stuck in freezed i/o state. qemu-guest-age 1:2.5+dfsg-5 Same version... Thank you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807073 Title: qemu-guest-agent stop work when fsfreeze Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Create a live snapshot, we should first to fsfreeze the file system. We do have only one disk mounted to /: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 48G 0 48G 0% /dev tmpfs 9.5G 8.7M 9.5G 1% /run /dev/vda1 485G 1.5G 484G 1% / tmpfs 48G 0 48G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 48G 0 48G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 9.5G 0 9.5G 0% /run/user/0 snapshot action is OK, when we restore the snapshot, the file system became read-only, and syslog seems stop writing until we fsck /dev/vda1 and mount -o rw,remount /: Dec 5 00:39:16 systemd[1]: Started Session 180 of user root. Dec 5 00:45:05 qemu-ga: info: guest-fsfreeze called Dec 5 07:00:45 kernel: [ 114.623823] EXT4-fs (vda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null) So after snapshoting, wo do fsthaw the file system, maybe the qga dose not respond or stop work, this action dose not execute successfully and there is no log to show the status of qemu-guest- agent. Version: libvirt 1.2.17 qemu 2.3.0 qemu-guest-agent 2.5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1807073/+subscriptions