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Guest Agent Ubuntu

This feature is obsolete.

On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and later you should use qemu-guest-agent with oVirt 4.3 and later.

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS you can install qemu-guest-agent from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu-guest-agent)

Kept the following sections for reference.

oVirt Guest Agent on Ubuntu 12.04+

Summary

Packaging the ovirt-guest-agent for Ubuntu 12.04+

Owner

Current status

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Detailed Description

This feature should provide ovirt-guest-agent packages for Ubuntu

Required changes

  • Ubuntu packaging scripts [DONE]
  • SYS-V init script for Ubuntu [DONE]
  • Upstart script for Ubuntu [DONE]
  • Adjustments to packaging [DONE]
  • Checkbashism checks on scripts [DONE]
  • Path adjustments for the Ubuntu environment [DONE]
  • Update package list to report for debian/ubuntu naming conventions [DONE]
  • Create wrapper scripts for elevated tasks [DONE]

Benefit to oVirt

It’ll be easier to install the ovirt-guest-agent on Ubuntu guests.

Repository

12.04

14.04

16.04

Documentation / External references

The guest agent reports the following things

  • Current active user
  • Memory usage (including swap usage)
  • Network Interfaces
  • IP Addresses
  • FQDN of the guest OS
  • Disks Usage
  • Configured RPMs to report (see /etc/ovirt-guest-agent.conf for the packages)
  • Hostname

The guest agent also provides the following actions

  • Desktop Locking for GNOME
  • Shutdown/Reboot from within the Guest OS

Installation

$REPOURL is any of the URLs listed in the Repository section

      # echo 'deb  $REPOURL /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ovirt-guest-agent.list
      # wget $REPOURL/Release.key
      # apt-key add - < Release.key
      # apt-get update
      # apt-get install ovirt-guest-agent
      # service ovirt-guest-agent start

Testing

Testing has to be executed on a Ubuntu 12.04+ system. Lower versions do not fulfil the minimal requirements for the guest agent.

Verification

  • Follow the installation instructions above to install the guest agent
  • After about 15-30 seconds the Web Admin Portal entry for the VM should show:
    • the IPv4 Addresses of the VM in the grid
    • the FQDN of the VM in the grid
    • kernel package and the ovirt-guest-agent-common package in the application list
    • The FQDN in the general tab
    • Logged-in User: in the Sessions tab should be filled if a user is logged in.
    • All IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) in the Network Interfaces tab in the Guest Agent Data section for each interface.
  • Verification via on the VDSM side:
    vdsClient -s 0 getVmStats <VM UUID>
    
    • Reported fields are non-empty:
      • guestFQDN
      • netIfaces
      • disksUsage
      • memoryStats
      • guestName
      • appsList
      • guestOs
      • username
      • guestIPs (if there are IPv4 addresses)

Note: The VM UUID can be found on the Admin Portal in the General tab for the VM

Note: The FQDN value is only only shown if the FQDN is not empty, not localhost and not localhost.localdomain