How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent" package

This tutorial shows how to install qemu-guest-agent on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall qemu-guest-agent on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-guest-agent package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Source: qemu
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 735
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.1), libudev1 (>= 183), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_5.0-5ubuntu9.8_amd64.deb
Size: 207168
MD5sum: f6594b86b75f4200779194233b5631b8
SHA1: 0df6803005115b6df14fcaf611c3ac91716df181
SHA256: 94f187a6fcfebc8ec48fd79f2e181569d4baf6a49978d0640183cfeac243b838
SHA512: 33d8d3c4421e0963c20f6ed1eb65acfcdc99101d4df7ccefb0a824f798872dd346b60cef6480f05c10e2bce65cb6d607423912495549ec0302082f2fdcb64454
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Description-en: Guest-side qemu-system agent
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
.
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.
.
Install this package on a system which is running as guest inside
qemu virtual machine. It is not used on the host.
Description-md5: c2bc281a0e5a8e6c2185b336580fd595

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.6
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Source: qemu
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 735
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.1), libudev1 (>= 183), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_5.0-5ubuntu9.6_amd64.deb
Size: 206216
MD5sum: 4cda7a92192c36db050abf779b76d0c0
SHA1: 4dbbe544f497b6fff1f537a2fc1c333e8d015f9e
SHA256: af5432912365334e717861280cd24dec4eea0f21c804bdd60ecb2e67e1b45e83
SHA512: 7f181e44a13c39601d9fe2d531e4ed64d96f37594fbd15a1bf005ad8b56d34d1cb296b28fab600fdf2836c0c8bdeec01c8349c44039c51bf6082b0702763ba68
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Description-en: Guest-side qemu-system agent
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
.
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.
.
Install this package on a system which is running as guest inside
qemu virtual machine. It is not used on the host.
Description-md5: c2bc281a0e5a8e6c2185b336580fd595

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.0-5ubuntu9
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Source: qemu
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 734
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.1), libudev1 (>= 183), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_5.0-5ubuntu9_amd64.deb
Size: 210772
MD5sum: bb413ba825e44daa06c8778047d333d1
SHA1: 3362cfce67939bf14d0e288e980ceb01febe5dce
SHA256: 123fee46cfa1217c48c780c40ecd5bb500aade2be32c4474828fbde58b4bc105
SHA512: 94dd9561471b24cb6748bdb3fabe9e17dcfabfe0bb44e880ac57148599c87b8472fc55a5ca2b022de628bf520be0f72e281bfd57aee34e15ef71e29ff849124f
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Description-en: Guest-side qemu-system agent
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
.
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.
.
Install this package on a system which is running as guest inside
qemu virtual machine. It is not used on the host.
Description-md5: c2bc281a0e5a8e6c2185b336580fd595