I'm running Debian Bookwork, with LXQT as my desktop environment. Which i installed from scratch about a week ago, then gradually added softwares as needed. Eventually, I needed Virt Manager, I've been using it to run VMs for Windows 11, Manjaro, and a few other OSes, so I dont have to dualboot for real. Earlier today I was installing Windows 11, all seemed fine. So far, I've been using the following guide for this, and it has worked well, up until now:
https://sysguides.com/install-a-windows ... ine-on-kvm
I followed all the prerequisite steps before installing the OS (mainly, the Virt Manager installation steps, and getting the required VirtIO drivers iso that must be fed to Windows after it is installed). After 11, was booted, I mounted the iso onto a virtual CDROM, then installed it in the guest. However, after rebooting the guest, I couldnt enable the "autoresize VM with window" button in the Virt Manager GUI, and a small message was displayed "guest agent is not available" when mousing over it. Then I remembered that in the past, doing:
sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent
Had been enough to fix it. But not this time. Even after rebooting host and guest multiple times, I cant enable the option. I have previously used the guide above for Windows 10 and Windows 11, on an older Debian 12 install, and had no issues.
Attempting to run commands like:
sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent
sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
sudo systemctl restart qemu-guest-agent
Have not yielded any results. But I did get a dependency error message. Not sure what to do at this point, or even how to work toward finding the cause and solving this. I do need this to work, since it's affecting my productivity. I can boot the VMs fine, but without the guest agent running they are sluggish, not very usable in a meaningful way.
https://sysguides.com/install-a-windows ... ine-on-kvm
I followed all the prerequisite steps before installing the OS (mainly, the Virt Manager installation steps, and getting the required VirtIO drivers iso that must be fed to Windows after it is installed). After 11, was booted, I mounted the iso onto a virtual CDROM, then installed it in the guest. However, after rebooting the guest, I couldnt enable the "autoresize VM with window" button in the Virt Manager GUI, and a small message was displayed "guest agent is not available" when mousing over it. Then I remembered that in the past, doing:
sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent
Had been enough to fix it. But not this time. Even after rebooting host and guest multiple times, I cant enable the option. I have previously used the guide above for Windows 10 and Windows 11, on an older Debian 12 install, and had no issues.
Attempting to run commands like:
sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent
sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
sudo systemctl restart qemu-guest-agent
Have not yielded any results. But I did get a dependency error message. Not sure what to do at this point, or even how to work toward finding the cause and solving this. I do need this to work, since it's affecting my productivity. I can boot the VMs fine, but without the guest agent running they are sluggish, not very usable in a meaningful way.
Statistics: Posted by Enigma83 — 2024-04-17 02:56 — Replies 0 — Views 1