{"id":67205,"date":"2024-12-06T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/67205\/qemu-guest-extensions-in-windows-no-longer-work\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T17:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:51:51","slug":"qemu-guest-extensions-in-windows-no-longer-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/67205\/qemu-guest-extensions-in-windows-no-longer-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Qemu: Guest extensions in Windows no longer work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly the guest extensions in Qemu stopped working.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just a short while ago I was praising <a href=\"https:\/\/andydunkel.net\/2024\/11\/29\/qemu-vs-virtualbox-unter-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qemu<\/a> as an alternative to VirtualBox, at least under Linux. When I started it today, the guest extensions no longer wanted to work.<\/p>\n<p>No screen resolution adjustment, no clipboard, no drag &#038; drop. First I checked the &#8220;QEMU Guest Agent&#8221;, which was running. If it does not run or does not appear, then start the service or reinstall the guest extensions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_1.jpg 822w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_1-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_1-768x340.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the end, the cause was my own fault. I had played around in the configuration and deleted the &#8220;Channel&#8221;. But this is needed. Here are the settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Channel type<\/li>\n<li>com.redhad.spice.0<\/li>\n<li>Spice agent (spicevmc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the restart everything worked as usual.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_2.png 776w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_2-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/qemu_guest_2-768x332.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly the guest extensions in Qemu stopped working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1682,2443],"class_list":["post-67205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-linux-en","tag-linux-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}