Management Agent Version Discrepancy
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Hello, I just installed two VMs, Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2 and Ubuntu 24.04.3. In both I installed the xe-guest-utilities using sudo apt and when I check the version of guest utilities on the VM I see 7.20.2-0ubuntu1, but in XOA on the General tab I get a message saying Management Agent 6.6.80-0 detected. My main concern is XOA is not assigning an IP to either VM, but both VMs do have an IP from my DHCP server, which I can ping. I do have a Kali Linux VM that has guest utilities v. 7.30.0-12 and does get an IP from XOA. In the Network tab for all three VMs, they're all set to eth0. I'm running XOA version 5.110.1. I'm not sure what I'm not doing?
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Hi,
XOA doesn't assign any IP address, this is done from the VM operating system. If the IP is not reported, it's probably because the guest tools you are using are the "old" ones. We rewrote them in Rust and it works a lot better. See https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/releases
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@olivierlambert Hello, thank you for clarifying how the IP gets assigned, I was wondering about that. I was able to use the gitlab you posted and got the guest tools installed and functioning. Thank you again!
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@ThisGuy_420 Great!
We'll try to get those tools available more broadly and finally get a 1.0 officially, this is taking too much time while they are perfectly working. Pinging @Team-OS-Platform-Release
