How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install qemu-guest-agent on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                qemu-guest-agent
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "qemu-guest-agent" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall qemu-guest-agent on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                qemu-guest-agent
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-guest-agent package on Kali Linux

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Source: qemu
Version: 1:8.2.1+ds-2
Installed-Size: 1134
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.77.3), libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing2 (>= 2.3)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Size: 340640
SHA256: 0bc3ae83994d373521d1673d89e677815af770d7a7c85ef678ca685ebb1d7d36
SHA1: e78a7a0d3c2ec20fb6b4b77527383a0c256a39d1
MD5sum: 41f5dc98d70a43b3b54692c083161f06
Description: Guest-side qemu-system agent
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports Alpha, ARM,
CRIS, i386, LoongArch, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V,
S390x, SH4, SPARC, x86-64, Xtensa and other emulations. By using dynamic
translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host
CPUs.
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This package provides a daemon (agent) to run inside qemu-system
guests (full system emulation). It communicates with the host using
a virtio-serial channel org.qemu.guest_agent.0, and allows one to perform
some functions in the guest from the host, including:
- querying and setting guest system time
- performing guest filesystem sync operation
- initiating guest shutdown or suspend to ram
- accessing guest files
- freezing/thawing guest filesystem operations
- others.
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Install this package on a system which is running as guest inside
qemu virtual machine. It is not used on the host.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_8.2.1+ds-2_amd64.deb