diff --git a/qga/main.c b/qga/main.c
index 3b9546c185..c373fec3ee 100644
--- a/qga/main.c
+++ b/qga/main.c
@@ -1271,6 +1271,8 @@ static GAState *initialize_agent(GAConfig *config, int socket_activation)
     g_log_set_fatal_mask(NULL, G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR);
     ga_enable_logging(s);
 
+    g_debug("Guest agent version %s started", QEMU_FULL_VERSION);
+
 #ifdef _WIN32
     /* On win32 the state directory is application specific (be it the default
      * or a user override). We got past the command line parsing; let's create