Hello, good morning, recently i successfully move a physical installation of Oracle Linux 6.2 to a VM on Proxmox, everyhint works as expected, however i just try to install the quemu guest agent with no luck, this could be due to the end of life of Oracle Linux 6.2, i dont longer have support from Oracle , is there any way to install it ? Thanks!
Install Qemu-agent on Oracle Linux 6.2
- Thread starter milocheri
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Hi @milocheri ,
The QEMU guest agent is not developed or supported by PVE. You'd need to find community specific to Oracle Linux, they may have a more direct knowledge.
Keep in mind that QEMU agent source code is freely available. If push comes to shove, you can compile the binary on your own.
Good luck.
PS you can run the VM without the agent. Its not strictly required.
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/qga
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The QEMU guest agent is not developed or supported by PVE. You'd need to find community specific to Oracle Linux, they may have a more direct knowledge.
Keep in mind that QEMU agent source code is freely available. If push comes to shove, you can compile the binary on your own.
Good luck.
PS you can run the VM without the agent. Its not strictly required.
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/qga
Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
Hello, thanks for your prompt response, i thought it was extrictly necessary since after installing qemu-agent on a Windows machine, i just notice a better performance, even thought the Oracle VM it runs fast enogh.
unfortunately, i don't have the knowledge to compile it.
Once again, thanks for your help!
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Hi, that rpm is for OL9, my version is 6.2, and yes, i tried to add the official repository, and i get an "errno 14 problem making ssl connection", i also try to install 1 by one all the dependencies with no luck!
Even if you would have, Oracle Linux 6 is EOL for many, many years. Don't run software that is that old and potentially full of security flaws.
Try to upgrade to a newer version. Since OL7, you could upgrade in-place with LEAPP.
The guest agent is part of the OS, so just install it via yum. It's on Oracle's official yum server:
Code:
root@oracle-linux-6 ~ > yum install qemu-guest-agent
Loaded plugins: ovl, post-transaction-actions, security, ulninfo
Setting up Install Process
ol6_latest | 2.7 kB 00:00
ol6_latest/primary_db | 20 MB 00:02
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package qemu-guest-agent.x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.8 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
qemu-guest-agent x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.8 ol6_latest 512 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package(s)
Total download size: 512 k
Installed size: 233 k
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