AlmaLinux Guest Tools

michael2z

I am trying the new AlmaLinux OS based off of CentOS 8. AlmaLinux OS is a 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8. I installed the required guest rpms, but AlmaLinux OS isn't recognized by the installer, so the required /var/cache/xe-linux-distribution file is not generated.

Can I manually add that distribution file? If so, not sure how to do it.

michael2z

@michael2z I just noticed the thread about new a guest tools iso. I'll give that a try and post my results there

tony

I tried installing via epel-release repository, the install went fine but the service doesn't start properly. The version is xe-guest-utilities-latest-7.21.0-1.el8.x86_64 installed via dnf.

Jul 27 12:05:03 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Linux Guest Agent...
Jul 27 12:05:03 localhost.localdomain sysctl[52086]: net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_notify = 1
Jul 27 12:05:03 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: xe-linux-distribution.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jul 27 12:05:03 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: xe-linux-distribution.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 27 12:05:03 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start Linux Guest Agent.

tony

Using this command to install from the old guest tools ISO worked fine

./install.sh -d rhel -m 8

the file version is xe-guest-utilities-latest-7.16.0-2.el8.x86_64, the distro logo is not showing though.

Bambos

@tony after some years, i had the same issue and i did the same thing. Still the logo is not appearing on XO interface.

olivierlambert

Distro logo is another story and unrelated to the initial question (logo display is purely an XO thing)

Shufflebox

FYI and for what it's worth - In my experience as of Jan 2025, the process aligns with RHEL and appears to have no issues.

From a fresh install of Alma 9.5:

sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf install xe-guest-utilities-latest
sudo systemctl enable --now xe-inux-distribution

graphs and other Xen Orchestra behaviours work as expected.