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

[Jehan Procaccia]

Hello

thank you all for your reposonses
indeed I needed to connect to the VM via VNC by setting a VNC password

*# prlctl set MyVM --vnc-mode manual --vnc-port 5901 --vnc-passwd XXXXXXXX*


then I could enter via virt-manager the VM + vnc password just set.
Now I boot the VM via PXE that redirect to our cobbler pxe installer and 
the VM gets installed properly
I can mount the Cdrom and install guest tool from there , thanks .

Sorry, but I think the page 
https://docs.openvz.org/openvz_users_guide.webhelp/_installing_openvz_guest_tools.html
on chapter 2 => Log in to the virtual machine and do the following:
maybe needs to precise how to "Log in to VM" ! at least a link to 
https://docs.openvz.org/openvz_users_guide.webhelp/_enabling_vnc_access_to_virtual_machines.html 
+ suggestion to install and use virt-manager would be a good start 
(needs also Xauth for X11 forwarding via ssh !)
or give a full example of cloud-init at 
https://docs.openvz.org/openvz_users_guide.webhelp/_using_cloud_init_for_virtual_machine_guest_initialization.html

regards

Le 29/08/2016 10:05, Dmitry Mishin a écrit :
> 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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