How do I install QEMU guest agent and cloud-utils-growpart ? Print

Your cloud compute is required to have both the QEMU guest agent and the cloud-utils-growpart packages installed to properly interact with our cloud control panel power functions (reboot, start, stop, etc.), rebuild functions, and also upgrade actions.

AlmaLinux, CentOS, Red Hat, or other RHEL based distributions 

Login to your compute through SSH or use the browser VNC in your cloud.hawkhost.com control panel and run the command:

dnf -y install qemu-guest-agent cloud-utils-growpart 

OR 

yum -y install qemu-guest-agent cloud-utils-growpart

Then run:

systemctl start qemu-guest-agent 

OR 

service start qemu-guest-agent

Then run:

systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent 

OR 

service enable qemu-guest-agent

Ubuntu or Debian 

Login to your compute through SSH or using the browser VNC in your cloud.hawkhost.com control panel and run the commands:

apt-get install qemu-guest-agent cloud-utils-growpart

Then run:

systemctl start qemu-guest-agent

Then run:

systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent