How To Install qemu-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-common.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qemu-common.x86_64 is QEMU common files needed by all QEMU targets

Introduction

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

What is `qemu-common.x86_64`

This package provides the common files needed by all QEMU targets

We can use yum to install qemu-common.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-common.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install qemu-common.x86_64

How To Uninstall qemu-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove qemu-common.x86_64

qemu-common.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/qemu
/etc/qemu/bridge.conf
/etc/sasl2/qemu.conf
/usr/bin/qemu-edid
/usr/bin/qemu-keymap
/usr/bin/qemu-pr-helper
/usr/bin/virtfs-proxy-helper
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qemu-pr-helper.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qemu-pr-helper.socket
/usr/lib64/qemu
/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
/usr/share/doc/qemu
/usr/share/doc/qemu/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qemu/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/qemu/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/qemu/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/qemu/README
/usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-doc.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-doc.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-ga-ref.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-ga-ref.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-qmp-ref.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-qmp-ref.txt
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virtfs-proxy-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-block-drivers.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-cpu-models.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-ga-ref.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/qemu-qmp-ref.7.gz
/usr/share/qemu
/usr/share/qemu/efi-e1000.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-e1000e.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-eepro100.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-ne2k_pci.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-pcnet.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-rtl8139.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-virtio.rom
/usr/share/qemu/efi-vmxnet3.rom
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/ar
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/bepo
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/common
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/cz
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/da
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/de
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/de-ch
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/en-gb
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/en-us
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/es
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/et
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fi
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fo
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr-be
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr-ca
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr-ch
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/hr
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/hu
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/is
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/it
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/ja
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/lt
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/lv
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/mk
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/modifiers
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/nl
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/nl-be
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/no
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/pl
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/pt
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/pt-br
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/ru
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/sl
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/sv
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/th
/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/tr
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-e1000.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-e1000e.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-eepro100.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-pcnet.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-rtl8139.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-virtio.rom
/usr/share/qemu/pxe-vmxnet3.rom
/usr/share/qemu/qemu-icon.bmp
/usr/share/qemu/qemu_logo_no_text.svg
/usr/share/qemu/trace-events-all
/usr/share/qemu/vgabios-cirrus.bin
/usr/share/qemu/vgabios-qxl.bin
/usr/share/qemu/vgabios-stdvga.bin
/usr/share/qemu/vgabios-virtio.bin
/usr/share/qemu/vgabios-vmware.bin
/usr/share/qemu/vgabios.bin

References

qemu-common.x86_64 website

Summary

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