Hi Shelly, You can use guest-ping commend to check that GA is alive. This command should work always.
Best Regards, Konstantin Kostiuk. On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:21 PM Shelly Kagan <ska...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Konstantin, > Thanks for the quick response. > I will look into getting a newer GA version. > Regarding the GA not available, is it relevant to the newer versions? Is > there a way to make sure the GA is available when running the freeze? when > it is not available it takes a lot of time to get a response back and it > causes the freeze to delay. > Best Regards, > Shelly > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:51 PM Konstantin Kostiuk <kkost...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Shelly, >> >> Thanks for your answer. Your version of GuestAgent is too old. The latest >> version is 103.0.0. >> Version 100.0.0 has a bug related to wrong error messages. When you try >> to freeze FS, GA can return an error that the GA is not available. >> >> Please try again with the latest version. I think it should work fine. If >> you still will have problems, will try to debug them. >> >> Best Regards, >> Konstantin Kostiuk. >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:03 AM Shelly Kagan <ska...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Konstantin, >>> >>> The Guest Agent version >>> "guestAgentVersion": "100.0.0", >>> I'm running with a 2019 windows image which I understand the GA is part >>> of the virtio drivers. >>> Don't know if the following info also helps but: >>> "hostname": "WIN-CUCKQ65DH6K", >>> "os": { >>> "name": "Microsoft Windows", >>> "kernelRelease": "17763", >>> "version": "Microsoft Windows Server 2019", >>> "prettyName": "Windows Server 2019 Standard", >>> "versionId": "2019", >>> "kernelVersion": "10.0", >>> "machine": "x86_64", >>> "id": "mswindows" >>> }, >>> >>> I think what is more important to me is the GA being not responsive for >>> the freeze call. I'm using the fsfreeze in a feature I'm implementing, and >>> since in windows there is a 10sec timeout because of the VSS the fact that >>> the freeze call returns error that the GA is not available plus that when >>> its not available it takes much longer for the freeze call to return is >>> really time sensitive. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 2:29 PM Konstantin Kostiuk <kkost...@redhat.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Shelly, >>>> >>>> Can you provide your version of Guest Agent? Is it built from upstream >>>> or some VirtIO-Win release? >>>> Previously we had some issues related to wrong error messages from >>>> Guest Agent. >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Konstantin Kostiuk. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:24 PM Shelly Kagan <ska...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> I'm having some weird behavior with fsfreeze in windows VM. >>>>> I run the fsfreeze and it returns: >>>>> `error: Guest agent is not responding: Guest agent not available for >>>>> now` >>>>> >>>>> but checking the status returned frozen, rerunning it again returns >>>>> that the command is not enabled (expected since the freeze occurs) >>>>> >>>>> I checked the fsstatus and it keeps returning `frozen` even after 10 >>>>> seconds (from my understanding the freeze in windows vm is limited to 10 >>>>> seconds by default by the VSS. No way to change this default from my >>>>> understanding, is it true?) Shouldn't the status return thawed if the VSS >>>>> no longer keeps the freeze state? >>>>> >>>>> After a minute I did the thaw and it returned error: >>>>> `error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU agent command >>>>> 'guest-fsfreeze-thaw': couldn't hold writes: fsfreeze is limited up to 10 >>>>> seconds:` >>>>> >>>>> but the fsstatus changed to thawed after that call. >>>>> >>>>> My questions are: >>>>> 1. Why would the fsfreeze return error about the guest agent but still >>>>> freeze the fs? >>>>> 2. Why would the guest agent not respond, is there a way to make sure >>>>> it is available before the freeze command? (running the fsstatus command >>>>> before it returned without issues..) >>>>> 3. Is it expected that the fsstatus will return frozen even if >>>>> possibly VSS has already thawed? and that the thaw fails but the status do >>>>> change after to thawed? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for taking the time to respond and help, >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Shelly Kagan >>>>> >>>>> Senior Software Engineer >>>>> >>>>> Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> >>>>> <https://www.redhat.com> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Shelly Kagan >>> >>> Senior Software Engineer >>> >>> Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> >>> <https://www.redhat.com> >>> >> > > -- > > Shelly Kagan > > Senior Software Engineer > > Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> > <https://www.redhat.com> >