diff --git a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/Manifest b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/Manifest
index e286c27..a7bffe1 100644
--- a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/Manifest
+++ b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/Manifest
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
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-DIST google-guest-agent-20210408.00.tar.gz 82520 BLAKE2B 1a65435485144b7d2b2d3e02be9806aefb93eb82c3acc4e98b6a02e1818cf252d402c78a605e10b5c66d6321383e634789b6838a6f950d5997c5e2936fb2be1e SHA512 d72714288c36de833308aae94e3a5c4365c02e5f30dd69f34299b757b69795350f16cdc0028d9104c93086fb49bcb0c5be70e8bd4d4068f7de3c1ab3c93265d8
+DIST google-guest-agent-20210707.00.tar.gz 82391 BLAKE2B 52e9312d2236e07ddc83a09b9baed3a0b3ecd6e202c2af81869347a0bf3a1c5ff55b0ad93c209a96f26d483f238e6bd0bb3ae7868d167f4d58af84cb500abcce SHA512 fe24bcfb065ed09ba0b9887e335f70c53db22fc0884bf2dbf35c77f62c3aaf74ccecf0fbe2db3904595acb8eaa8479ade6bac4981fbd2716edb09d779f6e0974
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diff --git a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/files/0001-Make-this-part-of-systemd-networkd-service-for-COS.patch b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/files/0001-Make-this-part-of-systemd-networkd-service-for-COS.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fe3711..0000000
--- a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/files/0001-Make-this-part-of-systemd-networkd-service-for-COS.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-From 0d140a51a66b003803f46277aafa3cab629349f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Roy Yang <royyang@google.com>
-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 12:27:50 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH] Make this part of systemd-networkd service for COS
-
-BUG=b:
-TEST=None
-RELEASE_NOTE=None
----
- google-guest-agent.service | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/google-guest-agent.service b/google-guest-agent.service
-index 05fbf12..fd027cc 100644
---- a/google-guest-agent.service
-+++ b/google-guest-agent.service
-@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Before=sshd.service
- After=network-online.target rsyslog.service network.service networking.service
- After=NetworkManager.service
- Wants=network-online.target
--PartOf=network.service networking.service NetworkManager.service
-+PartOf=systemd-networkd.service network.service networking.service NetworkManager.service
- 
- [Service]
- Type=simple
--- 
-2.30.1.766.gb4fecdf3b7-goog
-
diff --git a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/files/20210707-create-hostkey-and-instanceID-dirs.patch b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/files/20210707-create-hostkey-and-instanceID-dirs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c846c6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/files/20210707-create-hostkey-and-instanceID-dirs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+diff --git a/google_guest_agent/instance_setup.go b/google_guest_agent/instance_setup.go
+index 6288c18..70391ac 100644
+--- a/google_guest_agent/instance_setup.go
++++ b/google_guest_agent/instance_setup.go
+@@ -156,7 +156,12 @@ func agentInit(ctx context.Context) {
+ 		// Check if instance ID has changed, and if so, consider this
+ 		// the first boot of the instance.
+ 		// TODO Also do this for windows. liamh@13-11-2019
+-		instanceIDFile := config.Section("Instance").Key("instance_id_dir").MustString("/etc") + "/google_instance_id"
++		instanceIDDir := config.Section("Instance").Key("instance_id_dir").MustString("/etc")
++		// Create the instance ID directory, if it doesn't exist.
++		if err := os.MkdirAll(instanceIDDir, 0755); err != nil {
++			logger.Warningf("Failed to create instance ID directory: %v", err)
++		}
++		instanceIDFile := instanceIDDir + "/google_instance_id"
+ 		instanceID, err := ioutil.ReadFile(instanceIDFile)
+ 		if err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+ 			logger.Warningf("Not running first-boot actions, error reading instance ID: %v", err)
+@@ -197,6 +202,11 @@ func agentInit(ctx context.Context) {
+ 
+ func generateSSHKeys() error {
+ 	hostKeyDir := config.Section("InstanceSetup").Key("host_key_dir").MustString("/etc/ssh")
++	// Create the host key directory, if it doesn't exist.
++	if err := os.MkdirAll(hostKeyDir, 0755); err != nil {
++		logger.Warningf("Failed to create host key directory: %v", err)
++	}
++
+ 	dir, err := os.Open(hostKeyDir)
+ 	if err != nil {
+ 		return err
diff --git a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210408.00-r1.ebuild b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210408.00-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 120000
index 3e3948f..0000000
--- a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210408.00-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-google-guest-agent-20210408.00.ebuild
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210707.00-r1.ebuild b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210707.00-r1.ebuild
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..d826411
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210707.00-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+google-guest-agent-20210707.00.ebuild
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210408.00.ebuild b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210707.00.ebuild
similarity index 99%
rename from project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210408.00.ebuild
rename to project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210707.00.ebuild
index 21a5578..73c43ba 100644
--- a/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210408.00.ebuild
+++ b/project-lakitu/app-admin/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent-20210707.00.ebuild
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@
 
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/20201102-homedir-gid.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/20210707-create-hostkey-and-instanceID-dirs.patch"
 )
 
 src_compile() {