How To Install libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 is Server side daemon & driver required to run KVM guests

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64`

Server side daemon and driver required to manage the virtualization capabilities of the KVM hypervisor

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

Install libvirt-daemon-kvm.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 libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64

libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

References

libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.