Error from event: The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -2700.)

[ElSamhaa]

Describe the issue
Whenever I try to run utmctl exec fedora --cmd ls I get the below error:

Error from event: The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -2700.)
The QEMU guest agent is not running or not installed on the guest.

Configuration

• UTM Version: 4.4.5
• macOS Version: 14.1.2 (23B92)
• Mac Chip (Intel, M1, ...): M1

Debug log
https://gist.github.com/ElSamhaa/acef64abd26307ce2eae6bbbeb44d6e6

Upload VM
https://gist.github.com/ElSamhaa/6f6aeb914f8795f5e551a59eeac2331b

[natemccurdy]

I'm seeing similar behavior when running utmctl exec against a Debian 12 (bookwork) guest:

$ utmctl exec deb-bookworm --cmd whoami                                    
Error from event: The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -2700.)
The QEMU guest agent is not running or not installed on the guest.

The guest VM has the qemu-guest-agent package installed and running.
I can see in the qemu logs that the command is making its way to the VM. It seems like maybe utmctl isn't handling the response correctly, maybe?

nate@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent
● qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-01-19 21:50:39 UTC; 4min 50s ago
   Main PID: 315 (qemu-ga)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 4595)
     Memory: 1.6M
        CPU: 256ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/qemu-guest-agent.service
             └─315 /usr/sbin/qemu-ga

Jan 19 21:50:39 localhost systemd[1]: Started qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent.

nate@localhost:~$ sudo journalctl -f -u qemu-guest-agent
Jan 19 21:50:39 localhost systemd[1]: Started qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent.
Jan 19 21:52:38 localhost qemu-ga[315]: info: guest-exec called: "whoami"
Jan 19 21:55:27 localhost qemu-ga[315]: info: guest-exec called: "whoami"
Jan 19 21:55:41 localhost qemu-ga[315]: info: guest-exec called: "whoami"
Jan 19 21:56:50 localhost qemu-ga[315]: info: guest-exec called: "whoami"
Jan 19 21:57:00 localhost qemu-ga[315]: info: guest-exec called: "whoami"

On my MacOS (Intel) host, I'm running:

utmctl exec deb-bookworm --cmd whoami

Configuration

• UTM Version: 4.4.5 (94)
• Host: Intel MacOS 14.2.1
• Guest:
  • Debian 12
  • quemu-guest-agent version 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u3

[osy]

Debug JSON recieved <- {
    return =     {
        pid = 1147;
    };
}

I wonder why it returns that error...

So it is executing on the guest.