VM and QEMU guest agent on windows

[JohnnyD]

HI, I have two Windows VM and 6 Debian running on my Truenas Scale 22.12.0, the debian machines are pretty straight forward if nothing has changed and I just install the agent on the individual machines, what about windows though? It is recommended to use the AHCI drivers on creating the VM (not virtio) but i am failrly sure the only way to get the guest agent onto a windows box is to install from the virtio drivers ISO? How do I get my windows machines to shut down gracefully if I power off the scale box?

JD

 

[sretalla]

You'll want to be running (the right) VirtIO drivers for best performance and host/guest interaction.

I note that some of the very latest VirtIO drivers are buggy and/or cause crashing, so check that out before picking a version.

 

[JohnnyD]

OK Thanks......will try stable and see, I can't get qemu-ga to start on my Debian vm's do I need to do something in Scale to make this happen?

 

[sretalla]

I can't get qemu-ga to start on my Debian vm's do I need to do something in Scale to make this happen?

You should only need to set up the agent, enable and start the service in the VM, nothing on the host.

 

[rich45]

sretalla
sounds like you have knowledge of builing a windows VM.
I would appreciate some assistance with this task. I will attach a word file with the setup and errors.
if you could direct me how to change things so it will run.

isssues:
no display
fails to connect to hypervisor.

has adequate ram and drive space. running the latest update of scale.

please contact me if you can assist or if you can refer to someone or information to use. windows ISO that I am using installed easily on vmware workstation on windows host.
do I need to run this ISO the microsoft creation tool?

host Dell power edge r720, has scale TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.0, 125 ram, 2 terabytes available.

if this is the wrong forum I apologize.

thank you

sorry sir I guess I did not get it attached right

here are the errors I see in the serial shell
Error in serial shell

Error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

Error: authentication unavailable: no polkit agent available to authenticate action ‘org.libvrt.unix.manage’

yes, I believe you are correct, just to verify the drivers are only installed on the guest OS?


this system resources for the VM

Virtual CPUs:

2

Cores:

4

Threads:

4

Memory Size:

16.00 GiB

Boot Loader Type:

UEFI

System Clock:

LOCAL

Display Port:

5910



the rest of the errors refer tho the libvirt drivers that I am trying to figure out how to get them installed into a system that fails to boot?

 

[sretalla]

I would appreciate some assistance with this task. I will attach a word file with the setup and errors.

OK, but I see no attached file.

isssues:
no display
fails to connect to hypervisor.

I'm not sure I get what you mean... did you fail to see the display when clicking on the <...> Display button for that VM? or you don't have a Display type device under Devices for that VM?

I also don't clearly understand if you're referring to the inability to "ping the host" when you talk about failing to connect to hypervisor... this one is well documented... you need to configure a bridge for guest-host connectivity to work.

 

[rich45]

OK, but I see no attached file.


I'm not sure I get what you mean... did you fail to see the display when clicking on the <...> Display button for that VM? or you don't have a Display type device under Devices for that VM?

I also don't clearly understand if you're referring to the inability to "ping the host" when you talk about failing to connect to hypervisor... this one is well documented... you need to configure a bridge for guest-host connectivity to work.

Sretalla:
the file that I was adding did not get attached I have added the information to the post. when clicking on <...> button the error I mentioned is displayed.

honestly sir I know some where I spoke about ping host. all VM's are connected to Bridge network.

will try to install virt/IO drivers per the video truenas scale windows vm. if you have a better method would appreciate. should be a way to add drivers to the Iso. yes?

thank you for the assistance
rich45