guest-agent

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    GUI Summary: state of Guest Agent is not shown any more

    Promox version: 1.4-17 I have noticed that in VM Summary the state of Guest Agent is not shown any more. Previously it was there. How can we activate it to be shown again? There should be possibility to see if Gueast Agent is running from GUI.
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    Proxmox VE API 596 Broken pipe

    Hey guys, I've had this problem back in 2022 but the fix that someone gave me doesn't work anymore. Also reastarting the Server doesn't change anything. Getting the 596 broken Pipe error always happens when using a API call involving the guest agent. For Example...
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    How to install qemu guest-agent on windows7? including ver7600&7601(sp1) and also vista

    hi all, just install win7 successfully on pve 8.0.4, but i cant install guest agent(use virtio-win-0.1.240.iso), already enable the qemu ga option on web gui(u may check the pic1 below), the error information should be" verify that you have sufficient privileges to start the system services "...
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    No QEMU guest agent configured (even though it's running)

    This seems very similar to https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/guest-agent-not-running.74587/ but thought I should start my own thread. I tried following the directions in https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent. According to those "You have to install guest-agent in each VM and then enable...
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    agent exec api windows command problem

    hello, you are having a problem with the api, you can help. I am trying to send a terminal command to windows on agent. https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/#/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/agent/exec data = [ 'command' = "cmd.exe dir" ] I don't know the parameters. I want to create a...
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    enabling qemu guest agent affects api call

    Greetings, I have a personal proxmox setup where I have 5 Qemu VPS. I am trying to enable qemu guest agent in one of the VPS via api calls which works fine, but when qemu guest agent is enabled, my network config api calls stops working. My script does the following, 1> API call to server ->...
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    [SOLVED] No QEMU guest agent configured - Error Even after the agent is installed in the windows

    Hi Team, I have installed the qm guest agent in windows 2019 by following the below link https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent#Windows and hopefully, it worked fine without any issue, but the iso of (virtio-*.iso) did not work anyhow, the guest is installed and I could ping that from...
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    Application Aware Processing for Linux and Windows database servers - Tmanok

    Hi Proxmox Team! Not sure if I asked a similar question recently, couldn't find it if I did but I know that this has been troubling me a lot lately. After working with Veeam long ago and recently supporting an organization that relies on it heavily, I was reminded that it offers Application...
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    Run command into the VM

    Hello, How can I deploy and run a bash script into the VM? On VMware products, I'm using VMware tools that provided me a tunnel into the VM to control the machine, but I couldn't find any solution on qemu guest agent tools.
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    Unable to connect to VM qga socket - timeout after 31 retries

    Hi! When I try to ping the vm guest agent in the virtual machine, I get the error: vm 114 qmp command 'guest-ping' failed - unable to connect to VM 114 qga socket - timeout after 31 retries Quest agent is installed, checkbox "yes" for qemu agent set on. The service Qemu Quest Agent is...
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    Failed shutdown via qemu guest agent

    Hello. I found bug in sysvinit shutdown command. It is not possible to shutdown Debian 11 with sysvinit (w/o systemd). Debian bugreport: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001795 Upstream commit...
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    Guest VM's agent selection

    Hi out there, In my environment guest vm's installed with qemu-guest-agent , there is some issue with backup of vm during backup system unreachable and some disturbance in system. One of the college recommended to use "open-vm-tools" agent for better performance. So my question is : Should...
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    Guest hangs when halt / shutdown issued (OpenMediaVault 5.x)?

    Attempting to halt an OpenMediaVault 5 guest running on Proxmox 7, but the guest vm seems to hang after issuing halt directly on the guest. When on PVE I see, qm list: VMID NAME STATUS MEM(MB) BOOTDISK(GB) PID 111 OpenMediaVault running 24000...
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    Qemu Guest Agent im Windows antwortet nicht

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe aktuell das Problem, das er Agent im Gast nicht antwortet qm agent <id> ping Der Dienst ist im Windows als laufend angezeigt. Die VM ist auch mit Qemu Agent aktiviert Innerhalb des Gastes habe ich noch eine Firewall. Muss ich diese auch für den Agent freischalten, wenn...
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    Guest agent not running (w/ QEMU guest agent enabled in host options and virtio installed in guest)

    I am having a strange bug showing up. I get the message "Guest Agent not running" on Proxmox, although on windows the Guest Agent is installed and confirmed running with `Get-Service QEMU-GA`. On proxmox itself the output of `qm agent <vmid> ping` is that `QEMU guest agent is not running`. But...
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    [SOLVED] Windows qm guest exec powershell got timeout

    Think I'm being stupid with syntax here, fresh install with Serial drivers and qm guest agents installed I'm having trouble getting powershell commands working e.g. oot@pve:~# qm guest exec 108 -- "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" "/c" "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"...
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    [SOLVED] Run guest agent commands on linux VM

    Hi. I'm having trouble running commands using guest agent on a centos 7 VM. I have installed qemu-guest-agent on VM and it's running. (tested via qm agent $VMID ping) Problem is I can't execute arbitrary commands from host. I've tried it in different forms but all failed: qm guest exec 384194...
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    Proxmox API /agent/file-write

    Hi, how can i send amulti line text threw the api /agent/file-write? If i send -d content="test \n test2" there is no new line in the written document just test without test2 in the next line Thank you in advanced
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    Problem with fsfreeze-freeze and qemu guest agent

    Hello, we're running proxmox-ve: 5.4-1 (running kernel: 4.15.18-12-pve) I was trying to test qemu-guest-agent fsfreeze function in a CloudLinux release 7.7 (3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.26.4.el7.x86_64) guest. When I issue the command qm agent <vmid> fsfreeze-freeze The guest agent stop...
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    Guest Agent is Running but does not respond to [qm guest agent <vmid> ping]... Help

    I have two Windows servers (2012 & 2016), that are no longer responding to Shutdown calls to Guest Agent. The Qemu services are running on both and I have restarted them. I have checked that neither VM has a lock or anything pending (not even updates). What I have just noticed that both of the...

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