[Users] cannot enter VM VZ7 , qemu-guest-agent. fails

[Dmitry Mishin]

Hello,

On 28/08/16 20:36, "users-bounces at openvz.org on behalf of Jehan Procaccia"
<users-bounces at openvz.org on behalf of jehan.procaccia at tem-tsp.eu> wrote:

>Le 28/08/2016 14:43, Scott Dowdle a écrit :
>> Greetings,
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> but now, how to get into the VM since "prlctl enter dhcpntp" needs
>>> the guest tools !? this is a vicious circle .
>>> the doc says:
>>> 2 . Log in to the virtual machine and do the following:
>>> Inside a Linux VM, create a mount point for the optical drive with
>>> the guest tools image and run the installer:
>>> # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>>> # bash /mnt/cdrom/install
>>>
>>> but again, how I get into/ log in to the VM in order to exec those 2
>>> commands inside the VM ?
>>> I must have missed something in between , but what ?
>> Yeah, I haven't figured that out either.  I used virt-manager to get
>>the VM installed and the tools installed.  Once the tools were
>>installed, I could use prlctl as desired.
>>
>> TYL,
>virt-manager ask for a password to enter the VM !
Where did you get a CentOS 7 image for guest OS? I believe, you use some
image, which was prepared in advance, because otherwise, you're trying to
enter to empty VM.

>so I figured out that I needed to set the root password this way
># prlctl set dhcpntp --userpasswd root:secret
>Operation failed. Failed to execute the operation. (Details: Guest agent
>is not responding: QEMU guest agent is not connected)
>Failed to configure the virtual machine.
You can try to stop it and set password on a stopped VM. This would work
if you have a cloud-init service inside VM.

Thank you,
Dmitry.

>
>again I am trapped in a vicious circle ! I really wonder how you did
>enter / log in the VM without guest agent ?
>
>regards .
>
>
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