21.08 qemu-guest-agent in VMs

[rmr]

I migrated a Debian VM from esxi to TrueNAS SCALE (just to be clear, I am NOT running TrueNAS inside a VM). Unfortunately, I know nothing about qemu.
On esxi, there are the open-vm-tools that add services to the VM such as copy/paste etc. It seems that the qemu equivalent is qemu-guest-agent.
However, trying to start the agent inside my VM, it refuses because it claims it's missing its control device. By default, /dev/virtio-ports/org/qemu.guest_agent.0

Unless I missed it, the guest agent is not configurable in 21.08. The command line to /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 doesn't seem to include it either, but I could have missed it. Am I on the right track?

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HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, 32GB ECC Memory, AMD Opteron X3421 APU 4 Core
HP 779134-001 726907-B21 H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter PCIe
Built-in single-port SATA
Intel X520-DA1 INTEL 10GB PCIE SFP+
2 * Seagate ST8000VN 8TB + 2 * WDC WD80EMAZ in RAIDz (all on HP H240)
2 * 100GB Intel SSDSC2 (mirrored) for logs (both on HP H240)
1 * ADATA SU720 480GB + 1 * TS480 GB (mirrored, one on HP H240, one on built-in SATA)
1 * LITEONIT LCS-256L9S-11 256GB SSD as boot on USB

 

[Dan Tudora]

I migrated a Debian VM from esxi to TrueNAS SCALE (just to be clear, I am NOT running TrueNAS inside a VM). Unfortunately, I know nothing about qemu.
On esxi, there are the open-vm-tools that add services to the VM such as copy/paste etc. It seems that the qemu equivalent is qemu-guest-agent.
However, trying to start the agent inside my VM, it refuses because it claims it's missing its control device. By default, /dev/virtio-ports/org/qemu.guest_agent.0

Unless I missed it, the guest agent is not configurable in 21.08. The command line to /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 doesn't seem to include it either, but I could have missed it. Am I on the right track?

Show : SCALE Test System

HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, 32GB ECC Memory, AMD Opteron X3421 APU 4 Core
HP 779134-001 726907-B21 H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter PCIe
Built-in single-port SATA
Intel X520-DA1 INTEL 10GB PCIE SFP+
2 * Seagate ST8000VN 8TB + 2 * WDC WD80EMAZ in RAIDz (all on HP H240)
2 * 100GB Intel SSDSC2 (mirrored) for logs (both on HP H240)
1 * ADATA SU720 480GB + 1 * TS480 GB (mirrored, one on HP H240, one on built-in SATA)
1 * LITEONIT LCS-256L9S-11 256GB SSD as boot on USB

hello

Index of /groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.204-1

fedorapeople.org

maybe that help

 

[KrisBee]

I migrated a Debian VM from esxi to TrueNAS SCALE (just to be clear, I am NOT running TrueNAS inside a VM). Unfortunately, I know nothing about qemu.
On esxi, there are the open-vm-tools that add services to the VM such as copy/paste etc. It seems that the qemu equivalent is qemu-guest-agent.
However, trying to start the agent inside my VM, it refuses because it claims it's missing its control device. By default, /dev/virtio-ports/org/qemu.guest_agent.0

Unless I missed it, the guest agent is not configurable in 21.08. The command line to /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 doesn't seem to include it either, but I could have missed it. Am I on the right track?

Show : SCALE Test System

HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, 32GB ECC Memory, AMD Opteron X3421 APU 4 Core
HP 779134-001 726907-B21 H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter PCIe
Built-in single-port SATA
Intel X520-DA1 INTEL 10GB PCIE SFP+
2 * Seagate ST8000VN 8TB + 2 * WDC WD80EMAZ in RAIDz (all on HP H240)
2 * 100GB Intel SSDSC2 (mirrored) for logs (both on HP H240)
1 * ADATA SU720 480GB + 1 * TS480 GB (mirrored, one on HP H240, one on built-in SATA)
1 * LITEONIT LCS-256L9S-11 256GB SSD as boot on USB

I'm not sure the systemd qemu-guest-agent service is designed to be started in the way you have ( see for example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1883009 ). But, the current VM implementation in Truenas Scale does not create the necessary "device" to support things like copy/paste. You can check this in an xml dump of your VM.

The libvirt-socket has been moved in TrueNAS Scale, so the virsh command becomes

Code:

virsh -c "qemu+unix:///system?socket=/run/truenas_libvirt/libvirt-sock" .... 

 

[beagle]

the current VM implementation in Truenas Scale does not create the necessary "device" to support things like copy/paste. You can check this in an xml dump of your VM

May I suggest you creating a feature request on Jira?

You can add to the list of improvements I requested on VM features on this thread:

Are these Virtualization features on the roadmap?

I believe one of the features attracting users to SCALE is the addition of a more mature virtualization solution available on Linux to an already mature ZFS based storage solution. However when we compare the virtualization features, UI and UX currently offered on SCALE to more mature...

www.truenas.com

And feel free to vote on any of the Jira tickets with features you'd like to see implemented. ;-)