Setting Up the QEMU Agent

After migrating to KVM virtualization, you need to install the QEMU Guest Agent daemon on your server. This program runs inside the virtual machine and enables full server management through the control panel. If the QEMU agent is not installed, backups may fail to be created, and statistics may be collected and displayed incorrectly in the control panel.

To install the QEMU agent, connect to the server via SSH and run the commands below, choosing the option that matches your operating system:

Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04

apt-get update; \
apt-get install wget -y; \
wget -O ./agent.deb $(wget -qO- https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/amd64/qemu-guest-agent/download | grep -oP 'http://mirrors.kernel.org.*?\.deb'); \

dpkg -i ./agent.deb;

Ubuntu 18.04

apt update && apt install qemu-guest-agent -y;

CentOS 6

yum update -y; \
rpm -ivh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/aevseev/CentOS6/x86_64/qemu-guest-agent-2.12.1-2.4.el6.x86_64.rpm;

CentOS 7 and 8

yum update -y; \
yum install qemu-guest-agent -y;

Debian 7

wget http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5a~bpo70+1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i qemu-guest-agent_2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5a~bpo70+1_amd64.deb

Debian 8 and later

apt update; \
apt install qemu-guest-agent -y