Windows 10 VM: Ping event is logged every 11 seconds by qemu-ga??!! How To Fix?

[MrPete]

I have my first Windows VM. I was shocked to discover, when examining the Event Viewer, that qemu-ga is recording a "Ping" event every 11 seconds, 24/7.
("guest-ping called")

That's enough to massively fill the event log with stupid stuff.

How can I disable this atrocious logging behavior?

It makes sense that qemu communicates with the VM to obtain current status. It makes NO sense to log a Windows event Every Single Time.

 

[bbgeek17]

How can I disable this atrocious logging behavior?

QEMU agent is maintained by QEMU community.
This page describes how you can report bugs/problems.
The agent's source code is available freely, in case you want to make the modification and build your own.

Good luck

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[gfngfn256]

How can I disable this atrocious logging behavior?

Don't think you can stop that logging per se, but you can easily filter it out within the Windows Event Viewer.

It makes NO sense to log a Windows event Every Single Time.

I can easily make the counter argument, that it could be pretty useful to diagnose when/if/why the connection fails.