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title: 'Making qemu-ga work with alpine LOTS of wrong answers.'
url: 'https://grav.munn.me/my-blog/making-qemu-ga-work-with-alpine'
markdown: 'https://grav.munn.me/my-blog/making-qemu-ga-work-with-alpine.md'
date: '2025-08-13'
description: 'I was having terrible troble alpine not running qemu guest agent. Most people suggest working with the openrc file. I just added the following to my /etc/local.d directory as a new file: qemu-ga.start qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/vport1p1 -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d This seems to have fixed it q…'
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# Making qemu-ga work with alpine LOTS of wrong answers.

I was having terrible troble alpine not running qemu guest agent. Most people suggest working with the openrc file. I just added the following to my `/etc/local.d` directory as a new file: `qemu-ga.start`

```bash
qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/vport1p1 -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -d
```

This seems to have fixed it qemu-ga is now running. Be sure to `rc-update add local` and make sure your file is executable. It should start on the next run.

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