January 28, 20206 yr here runs unRAID 6.8.1 now as VM under Proxmox. all is fine so far, but i admit, i don't use VMs inside unRAID (as that can be very tricky with performance). using quite a few dockers and plug-ins, all runs fine. Proxmox as the hypervisor uses KVM/QEMU itself to run VMs. so it would be great to have QEMU Agent support for unRAID as being run as VM (the QEMU agent would then report some informations back to the hypervisor). there's one guy, which did a VMware Tools build for his ESXi as hypervisor. but (and that's fine) he won't/can't do it for the QEMU Agent. so if anybody, or LimeTech, could bring support for the standard QEMU/Agent – that would be fine. thx. alot. PS: Proxmox is free (based on Debian) and has no limitations whatsoever. it can use all (from Debian supported) hardware, offers (built in) ZFS as filesystem and has a quite good GUI and also a respectable user base & forums. it can be (and is offered) with prof. support if wanted. Edited January 28, 20206 yr by s.Oliver
January 29, 20206 yr Hi, I just realized that QEMU Guest Agent is part of standard QEMU package, and it is already on unRAID. Just add following line before "/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &" in /boot/config/go file: /usr/bin/qemu-ga -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d You can try running it directly in terminal, just be sure that QEMU Guest Agent is enabled in Options on VM Options section. Best regards, Maciej
January 30, 20206 yr Author thx. mciekb! 🙂 i'll try out whenever i find a few minutes for the downtime
February 3, 20206 yr Author On 1/30/2020 at 12:03 AM, maciekb said: Hi, I just realized that QEMU Guest Agent is part of standard QEMU package, and it is already on unRAID. Just add following line before "/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &" in /boot/config/go file: /usr/bin/qemu-ga -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d You can try running it directly in terminal, just be sure that QEMU Guest Agent is enabled in Options on VM Options section. Best regards, Maciej hey Maciej, i can report: it works! thanks alot! 😃
May 6, 20215 yr I know its an old topic, but using UNRaid 6.9.2 and I have qemu-gest-agent running, it shows the IP in proxmox but I can not shut the UNRaid VM down from proxmox. I have to log into the UNRaid gui and shut it down from there. Is this a bug with the guest agent version UNRaid has or am I just missing a setting or something?
October 16, 20214 yr Author On 5/6/2021 at 2:05 AM, BrownHP800 said: I know its an old topic, but using UNRaid 6.9.2 and I have qemu-gest-agent running, it shows the IP in proxmox but I can not shut the UNRaid VM down from proxmox. I have to log into the UNRaid gui and shut it down from there. Is this a bug with the guest agent version UNRaid has or am I just missing a setting or something? i guess it's because unRAID ignores the power button pressed event from the QEMU agent.
July 2, 20224 yr For anyone curious, shutdowns now work from a hypervisor (proxmox) from my testing of 6.10.3 Which is pretty nice. Broadcast message from root@hostname (Sat Jul 2 17:08:23 2022): hypervisor initiated shutdown The system is going down for system halt NOW! Session was closed Linux 5.15.46-Unraid.
March 24, 20233 yr On 7/2/2022 at 5:22 AM, AshranPewter said: For anyone curious, shutdowns now work from a hypervisor (proxmox) from my testing of 6.10.3 Which is pretty nice. Broadcast message from root@hostname (Sat Jul 2 17:08:23 2022): hypervisor initiated shutdown The system is going down for system halt NOW! Session was closed Linux 5.15.46-Unraid. UnRaid newbie here, can you explain how to activate the proxmox agent in Unraid, I have it running in a VM on proxmox, everything works perfectly fine except for the guest agent, it is enabled on the VM, but it shows as not running on the Summary, I am on the latest Proxmox and UnRaid 6.11.5
March 25, 20233 yr 38 minutes ago, D34DPUULL said: UnRaid newbie here, can you explain how to activate the proxmox agent in Unraid, I have it running in a VM on proxmox, everything works perfectly fine except for the guest agent, it is enabled on the VM, but it shows as not running on the Summary, I am on the latest Proxmox and UnRaid 6.11.5 I use the go file located on the boot disk /boot/config/go add this entry below the existing commands: /usr/bin/qemu-ga -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d & As a test you can run this in the command line to get the agent running for the current session, it should show up in proxmox straight away. The go file will run this command on subsequent reboots.
April 19, 20233 yr On 3/24/2023 at 8:18 PM, tjb_altf4 said: I use the go file located on the boot disk /boot/config/go add this entry below the existing commands: /usr/bin/qemu-ga -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d & As a test you can run this in the command line to get the agent running for the current session, it should show up in proxmox straight away. The go file will run this command on subsequent reboots. Thank you so much, this works perfectly!
September 10, 20232 yr On 3/25/2023 at 1:18 AM, tjb_altf4 said: use the go file located on the boot disk /boot/config/go add this entry below the existing commands: /usr/bin/qemu-ga -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d & As a test you can run this in the command line to get the agent running for the current session, it should show up in proxmox straight away. The go file will run this command on subsequent reboots. Thank you! Now I can shutdown Unraid from inside the proxmox webinterface!
March 25, 20242 yr Hello everyone, I inserted this command in the GO file and everything works, now in ProxMox i see the IP address. However, in the unRAID LOG I see that every 10 seconds or so it continues to write: Mar 25 16:16:22 Riddler qemu-ga: info: guest-ping called Is all this normal? Thanks in advance!
May 3, 20242 yr On 3/25/2024 at 11:21 PM, Zippi said: Hello everyone, I inserted this command in the GO file and everything works, now in ProxMox i see the IP address. However, in the unRAID LOG I see that every 10 seconds or so it continues to write: Mar 25 16:16:22 Riddler qemu-ga: info: guest-ping called Is all this normal? Thanks in advance! Late reply I know, but this is normal, but should only happen while Proxmox UI is open and focused on that VM. Close the Proxmox page and it should stop the pinging
June 22, 20242 yr I just moved my unraid 6.12.10 from ESXi to proxmox and in the process of getting the qemu guest agent running on it. Running the command doesn't seem to work and I get the following error message in the /var/log/qemu-ga.log 1719073511.562663: critical: error opening channel '/dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0': No such file or directory 1719073511.562676: critical: failed to create guest agent channel 1719073511.562677: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel Checking for a solution. Edited June 22, 20242 yr by SCSI
June 22, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, SCSI said: I just moved my unraid 6.12.10 from ESXi to proxmox and in the process of getting the qemu guest agent running on it. Running the command doesn't seem to work and I get the following error message in the /var/log/qemu-ga.log 1719073511.562663: critical: error opening channel '/dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0': No such file or directory 1719073511.562676: critical: failed to create guest agent channel 1719073511.562677: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel Checking for a solution. Did you enable on the prox side? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent
December 10, 20241 yr Did anyone by chance come across this error yet? 1733814180.630563: critical: Cannot lock pid file: Resource temporarily unavailable
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