How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent" package

This guide let you learn how to install qemu-guest-agent on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

Learn how to uninstall qemu-guest-agent on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1.1
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: 819
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.63.3), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing1 (>= 0.7), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 248530
MD5sum: d2915f6e8308c2747eacb58e37fbf342
SHA1: df0556b9098e8e48be7605e4a97863191555718f
SHA256: 4bca7edf12477b2f672f2a6a661f0a614e0e2c4289b37b2b3101ffa9bc0cb339
SHA512: 92b25081d6d48c23d2ed2ba23a47f1ad4087006a712aa90760c133673704e7b35ffb925ca949c07b5438847f9865695901c77d4dbaa75b7fe09cc53875db7a6a
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: 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1
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: 819
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.63.3), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing1 (>= 0.7), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 249692
MD5sum: e3f57c3613a071da19658c34714ef15c
SHA1: 296580c81b07fccd5e4b8b35858c94152d87d58b
SHA256: 5edb6010c2b4749f57bed946d0c3f3688be8e2620ffe8d5d9fda4707a554900a
SHA512: c498dd7822daaf9e2d4fa00aae6d73c6f12911d54e4823436e914853fd1e90a095390695e0612382f409b62d468000cc971785a0a8c960c8e43dee383a1f9b78
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