Install Qemu Guest Agent or VirtIO Driver
We recommend installing the QEMU Guest Agent and VirtIO Driver to support your VPS Hosting maintenance tasks and enable GoDaddy to perform remote updates when needed. Select your hosting below to learn how to install QEMU Guest Agent or VirtIO Drivers.
Warning: This article covers an advanced technical topic where it's possible to make unwanted changes that GoDaddy cannot help you fix (see our Statement of Support). Before making changes, we strongly recommend downloading a backup.
- Connect to your VPS Hosting using SSH.
- Install the QEMU Guest Agent.
- Red Hat (AlmaLinux, CentOS and RHEL):
yum install qemu-guest-agent - Debian (Debian and Ubuntu):
apt install qemu-guest-agent
- Red Hat (AlmaLinux, CentOS and RHEL):
- Ensure BLACKLIST_RPC= is empty in the configuration file.
- Red Hat (AlmaLinux, CentOS and RHEL):
cat /etc/sysconfig/qemu-ga - Debian (Debian and Ubuntu):
cat /etc/default/qemu-ga
- Red Hat (AlmaLinux, CentOS and RHEL):
- Enable the qemu-guest-agent service to start automatically at boot.
systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent - Start the qemu-guest-agent service.
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
- Connect to your VPS Hosting using RDC.
- Go to the Fedora People's VirtIO driver download page.
- Download your VirtIO driver.
- Windows 2016 and newer: Select stable-virtio/, and then select virtio-win.iso.
- Windows Server 2012/2012 R2: Select archive-virtio/, select virtio-win-0.1.248-1/ and then select virtio-win.iso.
- Run the downloaded virtio-win.iso file to mount it as a drive.
- In
File Explorer, ensure you're in the root folder of the mounted virtio-win drive and then run the virtio-win-gt-x64 installer file. - Complete the installation. We recommend using the default settings.
- In File Explorer, on the left, go to the guest-agent folder and then run the qemu-ga-x86_64 installer file.
More info
- Learn more about Openstack from Openstack.org
- Check out more about QEMU Guest Agent from RedHat