Info

This spec was tested with PhotonOS 5.0 GA only, hasn't tried with 4.0, however it should be a repeatable step

Pre-requisites

User

Should be root to perform the below steps to make it simpler

OS

Photon OS 5.0 GA

Initial Setup

Install wget

tdnf install wget

Install git

tdnf install git

Build

Create a folder where you want to do this build and within it, pull down photon repository

git clone https://github.com/vmware/photon.git

Pull down this repo

git clone https://github.com/snapshotleisure/photon-os-qemu-guest-agent.git

Run Script

./photon/tools/scripts/build_spec.sh ./photon-os-qemu-guest-agent/src/qemu-guest-agent.spec ./photon-os-qemu-guest-agent/binaries

Install

Install the rpm

tdnf install ./photon-os-qemu-guest-agent/binaries/RPMS/x86_64/qemu-guest-agent-8.1.0-1.ph5.x86_64.rpm

Create Service

cat > /etc/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=QEMU Guest Agent
BindsTo=dev-virtio\x2dports-org.qemu.guest_agent.0.device
After=dev-virtio\x2dports-org.qemu.guest_agent.0.device

[Service]
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/qemu-ga
Restart=always
RestartSec=0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Enable and start the service

systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent