Hi,
I found the following advice on http://www.centosabc.com/archives/1236:
Add the QEMU guest agent channel to the guest from the host
Add the following elements to the guest’s XML file using the # virsh edit win7x86command and save the changes. The source socket name must be unique in the host, namedwin7x86.agent in this example:
(replaced < with % …, sorry)
%channel type=‘unix’>
%source mode=‘bind’ path=‘/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/win7x86.agent’/>
%target type=‘virtio’ name=‘org.qemu.guest_agent.0’/>
%/channel>
(How) can I use %i or another way of saying VMID in the RAW content?
It would need to replace win7x86.agent in the above, so it works for all VMs created from a cetain template.
Any ideas?
PS: If you haven’t heard about this feature, read the linked page for a nice intro. Basically, the guest agent is needed for any kind of backup consistency. I think it is at least available for Linux (as per above link) and Windows (Docs can be found at: Installing the QEMU Guest Agent for Application-Consistent Snapshots (Windows-based VMs) - holy f*** Stratus! This company runs at 5 nines+ availability across ALL their worldwide customers for decades.)