1QEMU Guest Agent 2================ 3 4Synopsis 5-------- 6 7**qemu-ga** [*OPTIONS*] 8 9Description 10----------- 11 12The QEMU Guest Agent is a daemon intended to be run within virtual 13machines. It allows the hypervisor host to perform various operations 14in the guest, such as: 15 16- get information from the guest 17- set the guest's system time 18- read/write a file 19- sync and freeze the filesystems 20- suspend the guest 21- reconfigure guest local processors 22- set user's password 23- ... 24 25qemu-ga will read a system configuration file on startup (located at 26|CONFDIR|\ ``/qemu-ga.conf`` by default), then parse remaining 27configuration options on the command line. For the same key, the last 28option wins, but the lists accumulate (see below for configuration 29file format). 30 31Options 32------- 33 34.. program:: qemu-ga 35 36.. option:: -m, --method=METHOD 37 38 Transport method: one of ``unix-listen``, ``virtio-serial``, or 39 ``isa-serial``, or ``vsock-listen`` (``virtio-serial`` is the default). 40 41.. option:: -p, --path=PATH 42 43 Device/socket path (the default for virtio-serial is 44 ``/dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0``, 45 the default for isa-serial is ``/dev/ttyS0``). Socket addresses for 46 vsock-listen are written as ``<cid>:<port>``. 47 48.. option:: -l, --logfile=PATH 49 50 Set log file path (default is stderr). 51 52.. option:: -f, --pidfile=PATH 53 54 Specify pid file (default is ``/var/run/qemu-ga.pid``). 55 56.. option:: -F, --fsfreeze-hook=PATH 57 58 Enable fsfreeze hook. Accepts an optional argument that specifies 59 script to run on freeze/thaw. Script will be called with 60 'freeze'/'thaw' arguments accordingly (default is 61 |CONFDIR|\ ``/fsfreeze-hook``). If using -F with an argument, do 62 not follow -F with a space (for example: 63 ``-F/var/run/fsfreezehook.sh``). 64 65.. option:: -t, --statedir=PATH 66 67 Specify the directory to store state information (absolute paths only, 68 default is ``/var/run``). 69 70.. option:: -v, --verbose 71 72 Log extra debugging information. 73 74.. option:: -V, --version 75 76 Print version information and exit. 77 78.. option:: -d, --daemon 79 80 Daemonize after startup (detach from terminal). 81 82.. option:: -b, --blacklist=LIST 83 84 Comma-separated list of RPCs to disable (no spaces, ``?`` to list 85 available RPCs). 86 87.. option:: -D, --dump-conf 88 89 Dump the configuration in a format compatible with ``qemu-ga.conf`` 90 and exit. 91 92.. option:: -h, --help 93 94 Display this help and exit. 95 96Files 97----- 98 99 100The syntax of the ``qemu-ga.conf`` configuration file follows the 101Desktop Entry Specification, here is a quick summary: it consists of 102groups of key-value pairs, interspersed with comments. 103 104:: 105 106 # qemu-ga configuration sample 107 [general] 108 daemonize = 0 109 pidfile = /var/run/qemu-ga.pid 110 verbose = 0 111 method = virtio-serial 112 path = /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 113 statedir = /var/run 114 115The list of keys follows the command line options: 116 117============= =========== 118Key Key type 119============= =========== 120daemon boolean 121method string 122path string 123logfile string 124pidfile string 125fsfreeze-hook string 126statedir string 127verbose boolean 128blacklist string list 129============= =========== 130 131See also 132-------- 133 134:manpage:`qemu(1)` 135