{"id":1430,"date":"2017-08-21T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2023-09-16T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T06:40:08","slug":"install-ovirt-guest-agent-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/install-ovirt-guest-agent-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install oVirt guest agent on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Install ovirt guest agent on Linux: Hello good people. Today I would like to show you how to&nbsp; install ovirt guest agent on <a href=\"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/category\/linux-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux<\/a>. The process is fairly simple and will provide the oVirt-engine with additional information about the VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ovirt-guest-agent\">Install oVirt Guest Agent on Linux<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The oVirt Guest Agent provides information, notifications, and actions between the oVirt web interface and the guest. &nbsp;The agent provides the Machine Name, Operating System, IP Addresses, Installed Applications, Network and RAM usage and others details to the web interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agent also provides Single Sign On so a authenticated user to the web interface does not need to authenticate again when connected to a VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Install oVirt Guest Agent on Fedora \/ CentOS \/ RHEL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with the installation of oVirt Guest Agent on Fedora \/ CentOS \/ RHEL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Install oVirt Guest Agent on CentOS \/ RHEL 8<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Check the guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/how-to-install-ovirt-guest-agent-on-centos-rhel-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How To Install oVirt Guest Agent on CentOS 8 \/ RHEL 8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Install oVirt Guest Agent on CentOS 7<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is how to install oVirt guest agent on CentOS 7, start by adding EPEL repository:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo yum -y install epel-release<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Install&nbsp;oVirt Guest Tools using yum:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo yum -y install qemu-guest-agent<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter the following command to start the service:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo systemctl enable --now qemu-guest-agent<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirm service status after starting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">systemctl status qemu-guest-agent<\/mark>\n<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-light-green-cyan-color\">\u25cf<\/mark> qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent\n   Loaded: loaded (\/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/qemu-guest-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)\n   Active: <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">active (running) <\/mark>since Thu 2023-01-26 15:38:03 UTC; 45s ago\n Main PID: 1605 (qemu-ga)\n    Tasks: 2 (limit: 23036)\n   Memory: 948.0K\n   CGroup: \/system.slice\/qemu-guest-agent.service\n           \u2514\u25001605 \/usr\/bin\/qemu-ga --method=virtio-serial --path=\/dev\/virtio-ports\/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 --blacklist=guest-file-open,guest-file-close,guest-file-read,guest-file-write,guest-file-se&gt;\n\nJan 26 15:38:03 rocky8.mylab.io systemd&#91;1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Succeeded.\nJan 26 15:38:03 rocky8.mylab.io systemd&#91;1]: Stopped QEMU Guest Agent.\nJan 26 15:38:03 rocky8.mylab.io systemd&#91;1]: Started QEMU Guest Agent.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Install oVirt Guest agent on Ubuntu \/ Debian<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Update your system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt -y update<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then install oVirt Guest agent on Ubuntu Linux system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ubuntu 16.04:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ubuntu 16.04, run the following commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>echo 'deb http:\/\/download.opensuse.org\/repositories\/home:\/evilissimo:\/ubuntu:\/16.04\/xUbuntu_16.04\/ \/' &gt;&gt; \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/ovirt-guest-agent.list\nwget $REPOURL\/Release.key\nsudo apt-key add - &lt; Release.key  \nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install ovirt-guest-agent\nsudo service ovirt-guest-agent start<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ubuntu, service will automatically be configured to start on boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/how-to-subscribe-centos-server-to-katello-foreman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to subscribe CentOS Server to Katello\/Foreman<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/install-dokuwiki-on-ubuntu-with-nginx-and-letsencrypt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Install Dokuwiki behind nginx and letsencrypt on Linux<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/adding-images-openstack-glance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adding images to Openstack Glance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install ovirt guest agent on Linux: Hello good people. Today I would like to show you how to&nbsp; install ovirt guest agent on Linux. The process is fairly simple and will provide the oVirt-engine with additional information about the VM. Install oVirt Guest Agent on Linux The oVirt Guest Agent provides information, notifications, and actions &#8230; <a title=\"How To Install oVirt guest agent on Linux\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/install-ovirt-guest-agent-linux\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How To Install oVirt guest agent on Linux\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,17,29,299,47,49,50,73,81],"tags":[275,274,276],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-virtualization","category-centos","category-fedora","category-how-to","category-linux","category-linux-mint","category-linux-tutorials","category-rhel","category-ubuntu","tag-guest-agent","tag-ovirt","tag-rhev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingforgeeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}