qemu-guest-agent: init module

Allow out of band communication between qemu VMs and the host.
Useful to retrieve IPs of VMs from the host (for instance when libvirt can't analyze
DHCP requests because VMs are configured with static addresses or when
there is connectivity default).

3 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 8ef76b9d81e..8a81a5fff8d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@
   ./virtualisation/hyperv-guest.nix
   ./virtualisation/openvswitch.nix
   ./virtualisation/parallels-guest.nix
+  ./virtualisation/qemu-guest-agent.nix
   ./virtualisation/rkt.nix
   ./virtualisation/virtualbox-guest.nix
   ./virtualisation/virtualbox-host.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-guest-agent.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-guest-agent.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e0d2b3dc509
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-guest-agent.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+  cfg = config.services.qemuGuest;
+in {
+
+  options.services.qemuGuest = {
+      enable = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = "Whether to enable the qemu guest agent.";
+      };
+  };
+
+  config = mkIf cfg.enable (
+      mkMerge [
+    {
+
+      services.udev.extraRules = ''
+        SUBSYSTEM=="virtio-ports", ATTR{name}=="org.qemu.guest_agent.0", TAG+="systemd" ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="qemu-guest-agent.service"
+      '';
+
+      systemd.services.qemu-guest-agent = {
+        description = "Run the QEMU Guest Agent";
+        serviceConfig = {
+          ExecStart = "${pkgs.kvm.ga}/bin/qemu-ga";
+          Restart = "always";
+          RestartSec = 0;
+        };
+      };
+    }
+  ]
+  );
+}
diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix
index 2b78276fcde..57e25d808dc 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix
@@ -343,6 +343,15 @@ in
             (<literal>virtio</literal> or <literal>scsi</literal>).
           '';
         };
+
+      guestAgent.enable =
+        mkOption {
+          default = true;
+          type = types.bool;
+          description = ''
+            Enable the Qemu guest agent.
+          '';
+        };
     };
 
     virtualisation.useBootLoader =
@@ -494,6 +503,8 @@ in
     # Don't run ntpd in the guest.  It should get the correct time from KVM.
     services.timesyncd.enable = false;
 
+    services.qemuGuest.enable = cfg.qemu.guestAgent.enable;
+
     system.build.vm = pkgs.runCommand "nixos-vm" { preferLocalBuild = true; }
       ''
         mkdir -p $out/bin