This is the latest way I have found to do this (09/2018)
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.13.dfsg-2_all.deb dpkg -i ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.13.dfsg-2_all.deb apt-get install -f
vi /etc/udev/rules.d/55-ovirt-guest-agent.rules
SYMLINK=="virtio-ports/ovirt-guest-agent.0", OWNER="ovirtagent",GROUP="ovirtagent"
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match="virtio-ports" service ovirt-guest-agent stop service ovirt-guest-agent start service ovirt-guest-agent status
Now give it a minute and the oVirt WebUI should pickup on the new client being installed.
Or you can try the following if the above fails:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/guest-agent/install-the-guest-agent-in-debian/
Then you have to:
vi /etc/ovirt-guest-agent.conf
and change the virtio device as follows:
[virtio] # device = /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm device = /dev/virtio-ports/ovirt-guest-agent.0
Then update ovirt-guest-agent.rules
vi /etc/udev/rules.d/55-ovirt-guest-agent.rules
And add:
SYMLINK=="virtio-ports/ovirt-guest-agent.0", OWNER="ovirtagent",GROUP="ovirtagent"
Then:
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match="virtio-ports"
Now you should be able to:
service ovirt-guest-agent stop service ovirt-guest-agent start service ovirt-guest-agent status
And you should see something like:
● ovirt-guest-agent.service - LSB: Startup script for the oVirt guest agent daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-02-09 16:27:56 CST; 5min ago
Process: 941 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 968 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/ovirt-guest-agent.service
└─976 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py
Feb 09 16:27:56 debian systemd[1]: Started LSB: Startup script for the oVirt guest agent daemon.
Feb 09 16:27:58 debian sudo[996]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 09 16:27:58 debian sudo[996]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
If the above doesnt work, try the following instead:
- Enable apt pinning as we have to use ovirt-guest-agent from sid
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines to the bottom of the file
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian jessie main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main non-free contrib
vi /etc/apt/preferences.d/my_preferences
Add the following to the file
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: ovirt-guest-agent Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: ovirt-guest-agent Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600
apt-get update
- Now we can check to see what is available
apt-cache policy ovirt-guest-agent
should return something like
ovirt-guest-agent: Installed: 1.0.13.dfsg-2 Candidate: 1.0.13.dfsg-2 Version table: *** 1.0.13.dfsg-2 0 600 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.0.10.2.dfsg-2+deb8u1 0 500 http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages - Install the sid version
apt-get install ovirt-guest-agent/sid systemctl enable ovirt-guest-agent.service
- And now we patch
cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/ovirt-guest-agent.rules <<EOF SYMLINK=="virtio-ports/com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm", OWNER="ovirtagent", GROUP="ovirtagent" EOF cd /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent rm *.pyc wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oVirt/ovirt-guest-agent/master/ovirt-guest-agent/org.ovirt.vdsm.Credentials.conf vi CredServer.py #change line 146 from: #conn.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_PASSCRED, 1) to: conn.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, 16, 1) apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-guest-agent cd ovirt-guest-agent apt-get install pep8 autoconf libtool gettext g++ make pkg-config automake libpam-dev ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-sso --without-gdm --without-kdm cd pam-ovirt-cred/ make mkdir /lib/security cp .libs/pam_ovirt_cred.so /lib/security/ cat > /etc/pam.d/gdm-ovirtcred <<EOF #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_ovirt_cred.so auth include passwd account include passwd password include passwd session required pam_systemd.so open session include passwd EOF
- Restart the service and check status
service ovirt-guest-agent restart chown ovirtagent:ovirtagent /dev/virtio-ports/ -R chown ovirtagent:ovirtagent /dev/vport1p1 chown ovirtagent:ovirtagent /dev/vport1p2 service ovirt-guest-agent restart service ovirt-guest-agent status
- If all went as planned – you should be working. If not, check the log
tail /var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log -n 30
Special thanks to Tadas for this article which helped alot. https://www.neblogas.lt/2016/07/29/install-ovirt-guest-agent-debian-os-enable-sso/