How to deploy QEMU agent on ZimaOS VM?

Operating System ZimaOS
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Title is self explanatory. Google gave me nothing and the only two people who asked about it in 2024 never got a reply back. Dropping this question here with hopes to get an answer from IceWhale team.

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Bump on this one. Wonder if this can be integrated on the next releases since it’s such a no brainer stable and simple package?

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I may misunderstand what you mean but…

Can’t you click your VM under your Node, goto options and enable QEMU guest agent?

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Nope, it doesn’t work like that. You need to actually install the agent on the VM for it to recognize the upstream communication with the host machine.

A simple sudo apt -y install qemu-guest-agent or sudo yum install qemu-guest-agent would do the job, however, neither the apt nor the yum are available in ZimaOS system.

The ask would be to either have those pre-installed or give the user means to do so for anyone virtualizing ZimaOS on PVE.

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Ok gotcha… I wasn’t sure, I always enable Guest when I set up the VM. I’m also guessing you can’t install apt or yum on ZImaOS? I obviously haven’t tried.

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That’s right. It’s truly locked down system.

sudo: apt: command not found
...
sudo: yum: command not found
...
sudo: pkg: command not found
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Yeah I understand. I would look into installing the APT Package Manager itself. Probably like a .DEB file or something. But, i don’t know for sure.

I’m not trying to come across like I know it could/would work. Just giving some ideas. There has to be a way to install at least one of those.

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Exactly, hence this thread. Hopefully they can suggest a safe way to do it.

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Hey @Zima-Giorgio is this something that could be discussed with the team? Looks like a low hanging fruit. Thanks.

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I’d also be interested in the QEMU guest agent on ZimaOS!

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Hi, @vipper_666 @MjTech @recipe-farrow.4i . Thank you all for the feedback. For now, we do not have sufficient human resources to implement VM-related features in the short term. But I will record this request, and once we have the proper person for it, it will be fulfilled.

Or, I can make a group for you…

What do you think?