Re: [libvirt-users] Starting processes inside VMs using Libvirt?

On 03/24/2014 01:31 PM, Taimur Al Said wrote: > Thank you Eric, [please don't top-post on technical lists] > > I am using KVM: qemu.. I'll try to see how I can use qemu-guest-agent.. > If you have links to examples on how to start with it let me know please. > Consider the following simple scenario.. > > I am using KVM to run several VMs; one of OSs in the guests is Windows XP. > I want to send to it something from the Hypervisor level, e,g > text,parameters,etc > so that it will be displayed in the VM screen or stored in a file so I can > read from the VM later.. > It's best to be done on a live VM. Definitely a job for a guest agent. But libvirt doesn't maintain guest agents - the qemu-guest-agent is part of the qemu project, so you may be better off asking there.

> > How can such a simple scenario be performed. Does it have to be through the > method of qemu-guest-agent?? As far as I know, qga does not yet have such a command, so your first line of attack is to patch the qemu sources to add a new guest agent command. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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