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2.2. Enabling QEMU Guest Agent features on your virtual machines

To use certain features on a virtual machine (VM) hosted on your RHEL 10 system, you must first configure the VM to use the QEMU Guest Agent (GA).

For a complete list of these features, see Virtualization features that require QEMU Guest Agent.

2.2.1. Enabling QEMU Guest Agent on Windows guests
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To allow a RHEL host to perform a certain subset of operations on a Windows virtual machine (VM), you must enable the QEMU Guest Agent (GA). To do so, add a storage device that contains the QEMU Guest Agent installer to an existing VM or when creating a new VM, and install the drivers on the Windows guest operating system.

To install the Guest Agent (GA) by using the graphical interface, see the procedure below. To install the GA on a command line, use the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI).

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In the Windows guest operating system, open the File Explorer application.
  2. Click This PC.
  3. In the Devices and drives pane, open the virtio-win medium.
  4. Open the guest-agent folder.

  5. Based on the operating system installed on the VM, run one of the following installers:

    • If using a 32-bit operating system, run the qemu-ga-i386.msi installer.
    • If using a 64-bit operating system, run the qemu-ga-x86_64.msi installer.

  6. Optional: If you want to use the para-virtualized serial driver (virtio-serial) as the communication interface between the host and the Windows guest, verify that the virtio-serial driver is installed on the Windows guest.

    For more information about installing virtio drivers, see: Installing virtio drivers on a Windows guest.

Verification

  1. On your Windows VM, navigate to the Services window.

    Computer Management > Services

  2. Ensure that the status of the QEMU Guest Agent service is Running.

If you enable QEMU Guest Agent (GA) on a virtual machine (VM), you can use the following commands on your host to manage the VM:

virsh shutdown --mode=agent
This shutdown method is more reliable than virsh shutdown --mode=acpi, because virsh shutdown used with QEMU GA is guaranteed to shut down a cooperative guest in a clean state.
virsh domfsfreeze and virsh domfsthaw
Freezes the guest file system in isolation.
virsh domfstrim

Instructs the guest to trim its file system, which helps to reduce the data that needs to be transferred during migrations.

重要

If you want to use this command to manage a Linux VM, you must also set the following SELinux boolean in the guest operating system: 

# setsebool virt_qemu_ga_read_nonsecurity_files on
virsh domtime
Queries or sets the guest’s clock.
virsh setvcpus --guest
Instructs the guest to take CPUs offline, which is useful when CPUs cannot be hot-unplugged.
virsh domifaddr --source agent
Queries the guest operating system’s IP address by using QEMU GA. For example, this is useful when the guest interface is directly attached to a host interface.
virsh domfsinfo
Shows a list of mounted file systems in the running guest.
virsh set-user-password
Sets the password for a given user account in the guest.
virsh set-user-sshkeys

Edits the authorized SSH keys file for a given user in the guest.

重要

If you want to use this command to manage a Linux VM, you must also set the following SELinux boolean in the guest operating system: 

# setsebool virt_qemu_ga_manage_ssh on
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