I did the verification for Noble.
$ Run a 24.04 VM with QEMU
Inside the VM:
$ apt policy qemu-guest-agent
qemu-guest-agent:
Installed: 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.16
Candidate: 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.17
Version table:
1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.17 1000
1000 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/universe amd64
Packages
*** 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.16 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
$ systemctl status qemu-guest-agent
○ qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead)
Install the qemu-guest-agent from -proposed
$ apt install qemu-guest-agent=1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.17
$ systemctl status qemu-guest-agent
● qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2026-06-10 21:33:42 UTC; 5s ago
Main PID: 2133 (qemu-ga)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 2315)
Memory: 468.0K (peak: 788.0K)
CPU: 13ms
CGroup: /system.slice/qemu-guest-agent.service
└─2133 /usr/sbin/qemu-ga
** Tags removed: verification-needed-noble
** Tags added: verification-done-noble
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