{"id":1381,"date":"2025-12-26T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vroamam.com\/wordpress\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:46:32","slug":"proxmox-guest-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vroamam.com\/wordpress\/blog\/proxmox-guest-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Proxmox Guest Agent – Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are all familiar with VMware Tools and Virtualbox Extensions and Peroxmox has its own agent to install for host to guest comms. It doesn’t appear to have quite the functionality of the others and it remains to be seen if copy\/paste and graphics are manageable but it is nonetheless a good idea to install it to allow snapshots and proper shutdown, the official KB is here https:\/\/pve.proxmox.com\/wiki\/Qemu-guest-agent<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Linux you simply install the agent from your repositories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Debian this would use aptitude<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo apt update\nsudo apt install qemu-guest-agent<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
On Red Hat and Fedora use yum<\/p>\n\n\n\n
yum update\nyum install qemu-guest-agent<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You then start the agent and enable it using systemctl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent\nsystemctl enable qemu-guest-agent<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You MUST also enable it on each VM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Select the VM and go to Options<\/strong> > QEMU Guest Agent <\/strong>> Edit<\/strong> > tick the “Use QEMU Agent<\/strong>” box > click OK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screenshot showing QEMU Agent options<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The VM MUST be completely shutdown for this to take effect. I tried a reset\/reboot and it didn’t apply, it has to be powered off. So whilst you can add the agent and make the changes to options live, it didn’t apply until I shutdown the VM and restarted it.

One simple way to see if it has applied is to look at the VM Summary, under IPs it will say “No Guest Agent configured” until it is working, at which point you’ll see the IP Address of the guest appear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screenshots showing the summary page before and after agent installation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I haven’t done this on windows yet once I do I’ll post another article to show how it is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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