How To Install qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 is QEMU SSH block driver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `qemu-block-ssh.x86_64`

This package provides the additional SSH block driver for QEMU. Install this package if you want to access remote disks using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.

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

Install qemu-block-ssh.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 qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qemu-block-ssh.x86_64

How To Uninstall qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove qemu-block-ssh.x86_64

qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/qemu/block-ssh.so

References

qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-ssh.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.