How To Install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Rocky Linux 8. xe-guest-utilities-latest is XAPI Virtual Machine Monitoring Scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Rocky Linux 8.

What is xe-guest-utilities-latest

Scripts for monitoring XAPI project virtual machine. Writes distribution version information and IP address to XenStore. This package follows the latest version of xe-guest-utilities upstream.

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

Install xe-guest-utilities-latest 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 xe-guest-utilities-latest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xe-guest-utilities-latest

Install xe-guest-utilities-latest 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 xe-guest-utilities-latest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xe-guest-utilities-latest

How To Uninstall xe-guest-utilities-latest on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the xe-guest-utilities-latest package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xe-guest-utilities-latest

xe-guest-utilities-latest Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/0726e517630d13f14d1d5e1406959eb266d5da
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/8b17082e459e08919ba5d9022ea5394036ff15
/usr/lib/systemd/system/xe-linux-distribution.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/z10-xen-vcpu-hotplug.rules
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-chmod
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-exists
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-list
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-ls
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-read
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-rm
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-watch
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-write
/usr/sbin/xe-daemon
/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution
/usr/share/licenses/xe-guest-utilities-latest
/usr/share/licenses/xe-guest-utilities-latest/LICENSE
/var/cache/xe-linux-distribution

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.