How To Install fence-virtd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is fence-virtd.x86_64
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 to install fence-virtd.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-virtd.x86_64.
Install fence-virtd.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-virtd.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-virtd.x86_64
How To Uninstall fence-virtd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the fence-virtd.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove fence-virtd.x86_64
fence-virtd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/fence_virt.conf
/usr/lib/firewalld/services/fence_virt.xml
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fence_virtd.service
/usr/lib64/fence-virt
/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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.