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Introduction
Installing the Guest Agent in ubuntu virtual machine is fairly simple and will provide the oVirt-engine with additional information about the VM. The process has two main steps which is adding an install source and installing the ovirt-guest-agent package. Presently the ovirt-guest-agent package for Ubuntu is not in the official repos, but is available through evilissimo who currently maintains the package.
Methods for Installation
Using apt-get via terminal to install the oVirt Guest Tools
From a terminal session, type the following
Source list
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ovirt-guest-agent.list
Source list filler
Paste in the following source
Write/quit the file.
Finishing up on the terminal
wgt http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/evilissimo:/ubuntu:/18.04/xUbuntu_18.04//Release.key sudo apt-key add - < Release.key sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ovirt-guest-agent
The above command will install ovirt-guest-agent. Accept the prompt to install ovirt-guest-agent and any required dependencies.