qemu-guest-agent wont start

[taich]

If have a ubuntu 18.04 server with latest updates and newly installed qemu-guest-agent.
But this service wont start. How can I fix this?

sc status qemu-guest-agent
qemu-guest-agent.service - LSB: QEMU Guest Agent startup script
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/qemu-guest-agent; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Sun 2020-09-13 17:48:51 CEST; 1s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2244 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/qemu-guest-agent stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2348 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/qemu-guest-agent start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Sep 13 17:48:51 fb2 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: QEMU Guest Agent startup script...
Sep 13 17:48:51 fb2 qemu-guest-agent[2348]:  * qemu-ga: transport endpoint not found, not starting
Sep 13 17:48:51 fb2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: QEMU Guest Agent startup script.

 

[smasty]

Sep 13 17:48:51 fb2 qemu-guest-agent[2348]: * qemu-ga: transport endpoint not found, not starting

You have to enable the guest agent in the VM options, fully shutdown the VM and then start it via Proxmox again.

 

[taich]

Oh, yes I missed that.

Thanks

 

[melroy89]

Not sure what is happening, but the agent was running 1 week ago just fine. And since Sep 30 it just stopped?

○ qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2023-09-30 21:59:36 CEST; 1 week 1 day ago
   Main PID: 1051 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 4min 50.740s

Sep 30 21:55:12 ubuntu-server qemu-ga[1051]: info: guest-ping called
Sep 30 21:55:24 ubuntu-server qemu-ga[1051]: info: guest-ping called
Sep 30 21:55:37 ubuntu-server qemu-ga[1051]: info: guest-ping called
Sep 30 21:55:49 ubuntu-server qemu-ga[1051]: info: guest-ping called
Sep 30 21:56:02 ubuntu-server qemu-ga[1051]: info: guest-ping called
Sep 30 21:56:12 ubuntu-server qemu-ga[1051]: info: guest-ping called
Sep 30 21:59:36 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: Stopping QEMU Guest Agent...
Sep 30 21:59:36 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 30 21:59:36 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: Stopped QEMU Guest Agent.
Sep 30 21:59:36 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Consumed 4min 50.740s CPU time.

Manually starting or enabling this qemu-guest-agent service fails under Ubuntu LTS with:

The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=,
Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for template
units). This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.

Which is stated here on the wiki. But in all cases I just can't seem to get the agent up anymore from the guest. Proxmox is also reporting "Guest Agent not running" , which is correct.. it's not running but I can't get it to run.

The only way to get it running again is rebooting the VM. But why would the agent suddenly stop?

 

[fiona]

Hi,
this is likely the same bug as reported here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/q...t-restart-after-apt-update.130981/post-576346

Since it's a bug in the guest package, Proxmox VE can't really do anything about it. But it sounds like it will be fixed in an upcoming release of the guest agent in Debian/Ubuntu.