To enable the Host to receive IP information, metrics, and metadata from a VM, some tools need to be installed on the VM.
The main tool being installed is qemu-guest-agent, which is a KVM tool comparable to VMware's VMware Tools
virtio-win-x.x.xxx or similarvirtio-win-gt-x64 installervirtio-win-guest-tools installerThis will install the guest agent, and also allow you to optionally change the VM's network connection type in Netframe to use VirtIO, for a small network performance boost.
Install the qemu-guest-agent via the terminal. On some common distros, this can be done by running:
sudo apt install qemu-guest-agentsudo yum install qemu-guest-agentsudo zypper install qemu-guest-agentTo confirm that the tools are installed and working correctly: