I have installed my Win11 VM. I am trying to use RDP from the VM panel, and therefore installed the Guest Agent service from the VirtIO CD. The service is running, but Unraid is not reporting the IP address. After several reboot, it still shows Requires guest agent installed. Have I missed a step? I also see no references to this in the VM settings. FWIW I can successfully use RDP from another Windows machine, it's just that I cannot launch it from the Unraid web interface.

Thank you for your feedback

Edited June 13, 20251 yr by Optimus Prime
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5 hours ago, Optimus Prime said:

I have installed my Win11 VM. I am trying to use RDP from the VM panel, and therefore installed the Guest Agent service from the VirtIO CD. The service is running, but Unraid is not reporting the IP address. After several reboot, it still shows Requires guest agent installed. Have I missed a step? I also see no references to this in the VM settings. FWIW I can successfully use RDP from another Windows machine, it's just that I cannot launch it from the Unraid web interface.

Thank you for your fe

Check device manager for missing drivers need virtio serial drivers to be intalled

Thank you. I haven't had to troubleshoot in the Dev Mgr for years! Thank you for pointing it out. I updated the serial driver.

There is also a missing driver for another PCI device...would you happen to know if there is a device during initial setup that typically needs to be addressed?

On 6/13/2025 at 5:25 PM, Optimus Prime said:

Thank you. I haven't had to troubleshoot in the Dev Mgr for years! Thank you for pointing it out. I updated the serial driver.

There is also a missing driver for another PCI device...would you happen to know if there is a device during initial setup that typically needs to be addressed?

On 6/13/2025 at 5:25 PM, Optimus Prime said:

Thank you. I haven't had to troubleshoot in the Dev Mgr for years! Thank you for pointing it out. I updated the serial driver.

There is also a missing driver for another PCI device...would you happen to know if there is a device during initial setup that typically needs to be addressed?

In order to have the guest agent installed correctly, follow these steps:

1. Go to <virtio_cd>\guest-agent and install the agent for your system

2. Reboot the VM

3. Open Device Manager (Start->Device Manager)

4. For ANY unknown device (showing the little warning icon ⚠), right-click on it, Update Driver, Browse my computer for drivers

5. Select the virtio_cd mounted CD drive and make sure Include subfolders is checked and click next.

6. Windows should automatically find the correct driver and install it for you.

For Linux (Bazzite specifically), this is what I did:

1. Open a terminal

2. write sudo rpm-ostree install qemu-guest-agent. if you get a message saying error: "qemu-guest-agent" is already provided...You can continue to the next step

3. Write sudo systemctl enable --now qemu-guest-agent.service to start the service immediately and tell it to run on boot

4. That's it! You should see a ...is added as a dependency... message