QEMU guest agent

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• qemu-guest-agent. Includes qemu-ga binary. Package required for virsh domfsfreeze

The QEMU Guest Agent is a daemon intended to be run within virtual machines. It allows the hypervisor host to perform various operations in the guest, such as:

• get information from the guest
• set the guest's system time
• read/write a file
• sync and freeze the filesystems
• suspend the guest
• reconfigure guest local processors
• set user's password

qemu-ga
1582525310.804292: critical: error opening channel: No such file or directory
1582525310.804332: critical: error opening channel
1582525310.804349: critical: failed to create guest agent channel
1582525310.804363: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel

Related commands

• virsh snapshot-create-as and --quiesce option

See also

• QEMU: qemu-img, qemu-ga, qemu.conf, virsh qemu, QEMU guest agent (qemu-ga), qcow2, qemu-nbd, qemu-img map, qemu-io, /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, QEMU releases, VENOM, qemu-nbd --help, qemu-system