[SOLVED] What does the qemu-guest-agent in Linux?

[fireon]

Hello,

what does the qemu-guest-agent in Linux really? I know it replaced the acpi feature. We use the agent only on Desktopvm's. That helps really. Because this is the only way that an shutdown is working with all displaymanager and situations. But there are other things that the agent can do for us? Or other no known advantages?

 

[mir]

Currently only shutdown and guest-fsfreeze is supported in Proxmox but other options in the agent is available:

 

[fireon]

Thank you for the movie. It's really really powerful.

 

[mir]

Thank you for the movie. It's really really powerful.

Yes, I am currently considering whether to write a patch for displaying network config using guest agent 'guest-network-get-interfaces' for VM's in proxmox GUI. Another task I consider is to write a patch for synchronizing guest time using 'guest-set-time' instead of having to install ntp in the VM - ntp does not like online migration due to the disk freeze.

 

[tconnors]

Yes, I am currently considering whether to write a patch for displaying network config using guest agent 'guest-network-get-interfaces' for VM's in proxmox GUI. Another task I consider is to write a patch for synchronizing guest time using 'guest-set-time' instead of having to install ntp in the VM - ntp does not like online migration due to the disk freeze.

Resurrecting a very old thread: I've just submitted a bug 3482, along with a fix that works for me.