How To Install fence-virt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fence-virt.x86_64 is A pluggable fencing framework for virtual machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fence-virt.x86_64`

Fencing agent for virtual machines.

We can use yum to install fence-virt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virt.x86_64.

Install fence-virt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-virt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-virt.x86_64

How To Uninstall fence-virt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fence-virt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fence-virt.x86_64

fence-virt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/fence_virt
/usr/sbin/fence_xvm
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt-0.3.2
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt-0.3.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt-0.3.2/README
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt-0.3.2/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_virt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_xvm.8.gz

References

fence-virt.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.