On 17.09.2015 18:14, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: > > also, > > Am 2015-09-17 13:57, schrieb Marko Weber | 8000: >> hello, >> >> in my windows vm i installed qemu-guest-agent and rebootet the vm. >> In the settings for the vm i set via virt-manager a new channel "unix >> socket" "org.qemu.guest_agent.0" "virtio". >> >> when i try to do a snapshot via shell i get: >> >> >> >> >> >> virsh snapshot-create-as --domain win7new win7new-snap1 --disk-only >> --atomic --quiesce >> >> error: Guest agent is not responding: Guest agent not available for now >> >> >> >> >> >> I use gentoo on the Host. >> >> qemu is built with useflags: >> aio alsa caps curl fdt filecaps gtk iscsi >> jpeg lzo ncurses nls numa pin-upstream-blobs png python sdl seccomp >> smartcard ssh threads tls usb usbredir uuid vde >> vhost-net virtfs vnc xattr xfs >> >> >> libvirt: audit caps fuse iscsi libvirtd lvm lxc >> macvtap nls numa parted pcap policykit qemu udev vepa virt-network >> >> >> >> >> thanks for any tipps and hints. > > i found out: > > the windows 7 prof vm was missing the virtio-serial drivers. So this is the reason why guest agent did not started up, and why libvirt (correctly) reported it's not running. > On trying to install them windows "always" crashes. > > tried: virtio-win-0.1.109-2/ virtio-win-0.1.105-1/ > virtio-win-0.1.102/ virtio-win-0.1.96/ > > windows is always crashing. Interesting. > > how do install this drivers? I'd suggest asking on qemu-devel list, since they are much more closer to qemu-ga than libvirt. Have you tried windows drivers packaged by Fedora? http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers Michal _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
