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Added by Michael Roth almost 13 years ago

guest agent: add guest agent RPCs/commands

This adds the initial set of QMP/QAPI commands provided by the guest
agent:

guest-sync
guest-ping
guest-info
guest-shutdown
guest-file-open
guest-file-read
guest-file-write
guest-file-seek
guest-file-flush
guest-file-close
guest-fsfreeze-freeze
guest-fsfreeze-thaw
guest-fsfreeze-status

The input/output specification for these commands are documented in the
schema.

Example usage:

host:
qemu -device virtio-serial \
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/vs0.sock,server,nowait,id=qga0 \
-device virtserialport,chardev=qga0,name=org.qemu.quest_agent.0
...
echo "{'execute':'guest-info'}" | socat stdio unix-connect:/tmp/qga0.sock
guest:
qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
-p /var/run/qemu-guest-agent.pid -d

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <>

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