Installing qemu-guest-agent with virt-customize

Published: 21 May 2024

When using cloud-images from various distrobutions, sometimes the qemu-guest-agent isn't installed. Using virt-customize you config modify the image to include this package as well as enable it boot.

$ virt-customize -a /path/to/image --install qemu-guest-agent --run-command '/usr/bin/systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent'

The guest should not be running when you do this.