Subject: Re: bug#64057: qemu-guest-agent-shepherd-service probably lacks (requirement '(udev))

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:20:37 +0200

Hi,

Yann Dupont <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Hi all, we've noticed that qemu-guest-agent doesn't start reliably on virtual machines generated by guix system. 
> the log file shows the following:
>
> 2023-06-12 14:36:14 1686573373.873765: critical: error opening channel '/dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0': No such file or directory 2023-06-12
> 14:36:14 1686573373.873779: critical: failed to create guest agent channel 2023-06-12 14:36:14 1686573373.873782: critical: failed to initialize guest agent
> channel
>
> I guess the udev dependency is missing. The following patch seems to do the trick here: 

Thanks for the bug report and suggestion!  This is now fixed in
c27479a739cdbe89be7cb03f73a4a5230e84379d.

LUdo’.