How To Install qemu-kvm-block-rbd on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-block-rbd
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is qemu-kvm-block-rbd
This package provides the additional Ceph/RBD block driver for QEMU. Install this package if you want to access remote Ceph volumes using the rbd protocol.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qemu-kvm-block-rbd
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qemu-kvm-block-rbd.
Install qemu-kvm-block-rbd 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 qemu-kvm-block-rbd
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qemu-kvm-block-rbd
Install qemu-kvm-block-rbd 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 qemu-kvm-block-rbd
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qemu-kvm-block-rbd
How To Uninstall qemu-kvm-block-rbd on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the qemu-kvm-block-rbd
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qemu-kvm-block-rbd
qemu-kvm-block-rbd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/077cb2037477b7091b89697fa68368841eee63
/usr/lib64/qemu-kvm/block-rbd.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-block-rbd
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.