[libvirt] Facing problems in running QEMU guest agents in Windows 2008 guest machine.

[Puneet Bakshi]

Can somebody point me to the working way of installing quemu guest agents
in Windows 2008 guest machine?

Regards,
~Puneet


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Puneet Bakshi <bakshi.puneet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a CenOS host machine running KVM and a Windows 2008 guest machine.
> I am able to run "qemu-monitor-command" but not "qemu-agent-command".
>
>
> [root at sdsr720-14 Windows_ISO]# virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp vm_win_05
> 'info network'
> Devices not on any VLAN:
>   hostnet0: fd=23 peer=net0
>   net0: model=virtio-net-pci,macaddr=52:54:00:7f:4a:5b peer=hostnet0
>
> [root at sdsr720-14 Windows_ISO]# virsh qemu-agent-command vm_win_05
> '{"execute":"guest-ping"}'
>
> [root at sdsr720-14 Windows_ISO]#
>
>
> [QEMU guest installation]
> To install QEMU guest agent, I followed steps mentioned at following URL
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent#Example_usage
>
>
> [Problem-1]
> "qemu-ga.exe -s install" runs silently, "net start qemu-ga" gave error.
>
> Following is the snippet from Windows shell.
>
>     PS C:\puneet> .\qemu-ga.exe -s install
>
>     PS C:\puneet> net start qemu-ga
>     The service name is invalid.
>
>     More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.
>
>     PS C:\puneet>[root at sdsr720-14 Windows_ISO]#
>
>
> [Problem-2]
> When I double click the "qemu-ga.exe", it gives the following error.
>
> "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click Ok to
> close the application."
>
> I tried some other possible ways also but could not get them working.
>
>
> Regards,
> ~Puneet
>
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