How To Install qemu-kvm-common on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-common on Rocky Linux 8. qemu-kvm-common is QEMU common files needed by all QEMU targets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-common on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `qemu-kvm-common`

qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. This package provides documentation and auxiliary programs used with qemu-kvm.

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

Install qemu-kvm-common 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-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qemu-kvm-common

Install qemu-kvm-common 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-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qemu-kvm-common

How To Uninstall qemu-kvm-common on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the qemu-kvm-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qemu-kvm-common

qemu-kvm-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/ksmtuned.conf
/etc/kvm
/etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/vhost.conf
/etc/qemu-kvm
/etc/qemu-kvm/bridge.conf
/etc/sasl2/qemu-kvm.conf
/etc/sysconfig/ksm
/usr/bin/qemu-edid
/usr/bin/qemu-keymap
/usr/bin/qemu-pr-helper
/usr/bin/qemu-trace-stap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/2f1cc7c6790f82681d22ab532c20b50bcda818
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/b359a3d00649c7c8f6f2b445b637d23d36f0cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/e441250918f5de9b845300ccaa7e81bc3bae17
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/70ba6f24b5449b3e3596fdbf32b222a2aba6df
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/9caca83e844e29cab988195f3a55e372a2be7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/5282b74850bc96022011c0fc7dc72102f5c806
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ksm.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ksmtuned.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qemu-pr-helper.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qemu-pr-helper.socket
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/81-kvm-rhel.rules
/usr/lib/udev/udev-kvm-check
/usr/libexec/ksmctl
/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
/usr/sbin/ksmtuned
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README.rst
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README.systemtap
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/ajax-loader.gif
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/alabaster.css
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/basic.css
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/comment-bright.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/comment-close.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/comment.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/custom.css
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/doctools.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/documentation_options.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/down-pressed.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/down.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/file.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/jquery-3.2.1.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/jquery.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/minus.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/plus.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/pygments.css
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/searchtools.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/underscore-1.3.1.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/underscore.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/up-pressed.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/up.png
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/_static/websupport.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/bitmaps.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/genindex.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/index.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/live-block-operations.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/objects.inv
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/pr-helper.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/qemu-ga.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/search.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/searchindex.js
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/vhost-user-gpu.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/interop/vhost-user.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-doc.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-doc.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-ga-ref.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-ga-ref.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-qmp-ref.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-qmp-ref.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qmp-spec.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-kvm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-trace-stap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-block-drivers.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-cpu-models.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-ga-ref.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-qmp-ref.7.gz
/usr/share/qemu-kvm
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/ar
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/bepo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/cz
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/da
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/de
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/de-ch
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/en-gb
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/en-us
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/es
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/et
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fi
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr-be
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr-ca
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr-ch
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/hr
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/hu
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/is
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/it
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/ja
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/lt
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/lv
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/mk
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/nl
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/no
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/pl
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/pt
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/pt-br
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/ru
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/sl
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/sv
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/th
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/tr
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/simpletrace.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/__init__.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/__init__.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/dtrace.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ftrace.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/log.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/simple.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/syslog.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ust.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/__init__.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/c.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/d.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/log_stap.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/simpletrace_stap.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/stap.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/tcg_h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/tcg_helper_c.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/tcg_helper_h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/tcg_helper_wrapper_h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/ust_events_c.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/ust_events_h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/transform.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/vcpu.py

References

qemu-kvm-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-common on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.