How do I install QEMU guest agent and cloud-utils-growpart?

Your cloud vps requires both qemu-guest-agent and cloud-utils-growpart to properly interact with the cloud control panel’s power functions (reboot, start, stop), rebuild functions, and upgrade actions.

AlmaLinux, CentOS, Red Hat, or other RHEL-based distributions

Log in to your compute via SSH or use the browser VNC in your cloud.hawkhost.com control panel, then run:

dnf -y install qemu-guest-agent cloud-utils-growpart
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent

On older systems that use yum instead of dnf, replace dnf with yum in the install command.

Ubuntu or Debian

Log in to your compute via SSH or the browser VNC, then run:

apt-get install -y qemu-guest-agent cloud-utils-growpart
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent