How To Install imvirt on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imvirt
on Fedora 36.
What is imvirt
This little Perl script tries to detect if it is called from within a virtualization container. This is detected by looking for well known boot messages, directories and reading DMI (Desktop Management Interface) data. The following containers are detected * Virtual PC/Virtual Server * VirtualBox * VMware * QEMU/KVM (experimental) * Xen (para and non-para virtualized) * OpenVZ/Virtuozzo * UML * any HVM providing CPUID 0x40000000 detection * lguest * ARAnyM * LXC
We can use yum
or dnf
to install imvirt
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imvirt.
Install imvirt on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install imvirt
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install imvirt
Install imvirt on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install imvirt
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install imvirt
How To Uninstall imvirt on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the imvirt
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove imvirt
imvirt Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/imvirt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/33103fc7d415d6868f5049ee4c3709806b6bc9
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/fbe41f8123befb6cfea3d61fbb437d17fe05e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/fe0aa61d6161a60d2138d7371bd76bca4e45a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/2b798e8e9596b6509f5c4bd9748bedcebbcf08
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/dfdf1a930721530e98361f9607a78d7ba9cdc3
/usr/libexec/imvirt
/usr/libexec/imvirt/imvirt
/usr/libexec/imvirt/imvirt/hvm
/usr/libexec/imvirt/imvirt/hyperv
/usr/libexec/imvirt/imvirt/pillbox
/usr/libexec/imvirt/imvirt/vmware
/usr/libexec/imvirt/imvirt/xen
/usr/sbin/imvirt-report
/usr/share/doc/imvirt
/usr/share/doc/imvirt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/imvirt/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/imvirt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/imvirt/README
/usr/share/man/man1/imvirt-report.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/imvirt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ImVirt.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt.pm.in
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/blkdev.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/cpuinfo.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/dmesg.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/dmidecode
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/dmidecode.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/dmidecode/kernel.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/dmidecode/pipe.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/helper.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/jiffies.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/kmods.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/ksyms.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/pcidevs.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/procfs.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/run.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/sysfs.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/Utils/uname.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/ARAnyM.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/Generic.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/KVM.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/LXC.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/Microsoft.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/OpenVZ.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/Parallels.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/PillBox.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/QEMU.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/UML.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/VMware.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/VirtualBox.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/Xen.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ImVirt/VMD/lguest.pm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imvirt
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).