qemu-ga won't start on Windows 8.1 guest
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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QEMU |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
System: Arch Linux, kernel 4.6.2
VM created with virt-manager 1.3.2
qemu version 2.6.0
Windows guest: 8.1, with latest updates (as of now)
Drivers installed from virtio-win iso image (arch package version 0.1.118.2-1)
in particular: vioserial driver version 62.73.104.11800
I can start the Guest Agent VSS Provider manually, but the Guest Agent itself doesn't come up. When launched from Console, I get the following:
<timestamp>: critical: error opening path
<timestamp>: critical: error opening channel
<timestamp>: critical: failed to create guest agent channel
<timestamp>: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel
(As possible side effects I have experienced that suspend / resume of the VM only works when I resume, suspend again and resume again. After first resume the VM's screen is frozen and doesn't accept any input. After second resume, all seems to be well.)
Oh, qemu-ga worked before (not sure whether before upgrade to kernel 4.6.x or before upgrade to qemu 2.6.0 though). Re-installed a clean windows into a new VM to verify issue.