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Description of problem: In today's updates, I have noticed a package "qemu-guest-agent". As I had no clue what this is for, I tried to read the docs, but I have found them missing and lacking - no clue what does this application do. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-guest-agent-1.5.3-13.el7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man qemu-ga 2. qemu-ga --help Actual results: 1. No manual entry for qemu-ga 2. Usage: qemu-ga [-m <method> -p <path>] [<options>] QEMU Guest Agent 1.5.3 -m, --method transport method: one of unix-listen, virtio-serial, or ... Expected results: 1. (manpage is shown) 2. Usage: qemu-ga [-m <method> -p <path>] [<options>] QEMU Guest Agent 1.5.3 A daemon program running inside the domain which is supposed to help management applications with executing functions which need assistance of the guest OS. Options: -m, --method transport method: one of unix-listen, virtio-serial, or ... Additional info: Sample text taken from http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent ... I don't say that it is perfect (well, to me, the exact purpose of this would be still a puzzle if I had read only this one sentence).
User should never execute qemu-ga directly. It's handle through provided systemd unit. Proper usage is documented in Virtualization Deployment Guide.