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I'm using RHEL5 as a KVM virtual machine
Are there any guest tools for kvm on RHEL5?
Even if I check the REDHAT download site,
there is an agent for RHEV-M, but it seems that there is no one for KVM
Any information is welcome.
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I've been having a look at this and I don't think the kvm guest agent was ever created for RHEL 5. There's a version of ovirt-guest-agent that can be downloaded from EPEL5 but I don't think it'll do. Plus I've been having some issues getting it running on a RHEL5 system running in new KVM, so.... it's dead, Jim.
@INAKA : if you want to have a go, here's the repo I found. But I don't think it'll work for you. Good luck! https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/x86_64/ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.13-2.el5.noarch.rpm

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Hi @INAKA ,
Thanks for reaching out !
Any particular reason for using RHEL 5 which is already End Of Life ? because of EOL , there may not be any tools available on the RH site for RHEL 5 related stuffs.

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Hi! @Chetan_Timwary_
Thank you very much for your reply
> Any particular reason for using RHEL 5 which is already End Of Life ?
Due to certain circumstances, I have to migrate RHEL5 in the VMware environment to the kvm environment. And RHEL5 cannot be upgraded for some reason,
> because of EOL , there may not be any tools available on the RH site for RHEL 5 related stuffs.
But , i can download RHEL5 packages from below REDHAT site
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---5/5.6/x86_64/packages
best regards

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but there is no "guest tools for kvm on RHEL5" on this site.


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what package name are you looking for, exactly?

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They're prolly looking for something like these -> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/virtual_machine_manage...
But yeah, that page also only mentions versions 6, 7 and 8.


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I've been having a look at this and I don't think the kvm guest agent was ever created for RHEL 5. There's a version of ovirt-guest-agent that can be downloaded from EPEL5 but I don't think it'll do. Plus I've been having some issues getting it running on a RHEL5 system running in new KVM, so.... it's dead, Jim.
@INAKA : if you want to have a go, here's the repo I found. But I don't think it'll work for you. Good luck! https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/x86_64/ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.13-2.el5.noarch.rpm

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THank you very much