How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent" package

Please follow the steps below to install qemu-guest-agent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall qemu-guest-agent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-guest-agent package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51
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: 516
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51_amd64.deb
Size: 132484
MD5sum: 9e17d10a0fb7f2791385aa9c44e0ec76
SHA1: 5c1c786ac42bc9d0eb95da1060904506de510df5
SHA256: 04f8ea2ea27aa410c684bea97498d77f4f1d7d09111650b15315851c5f98364a
SHA512: a6c8b7a1d8d26c890578d7f8cc82463ac660861d5311d5f4700d5fc4ed17e17323eabe3b167a68423d009d5523fe5dbbf1617777f1810219253bfdc17a315071
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.
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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.
.
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
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Installed-Size: 502
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10_amd64.deb
Size: 131274
MD5sum: d7068c578e88ab98537581f4f82ada8e
SHA1: 72e56aeac644ab957804d51fcdedd0e71d605112
SHA256: 0787d9389092c71100b711d760fc85980f781bd67c4994ca4ed706e86c86bd69
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu