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>
>
