How To Install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8. fence-virtd is Daemon which handles requests from fence-virt

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fence-virtd

This package provides the host server framework, fence_virtd, for fence_virt. The fence_virtd host daemon is resposible for processing fencing requests from virtual machines and routing the requests to the appropriate physical machine for action.

We can use yum or dnf to install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virtd.

Install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd

Install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-virtd

How To Uninstall fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fence-virtd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fence-virtd

fence-virtd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/fence_virt.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/e063c6c2af70a794932c2f93249145b3756e71
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/fa15f96f55a0dbfe4207c6121a13fb86fa7db3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fence_virtd.service
/usr/lib64/fence-virt
/usr/lib64/fence-virt/vsock.so
/usr/sbin/fence_virtd
/usr/share/man/man5/fence_virt.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_virtd.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.