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

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

Introduction

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

What is `qemu-kvm-common.x86_64`

qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. This package provides documentation and auxiliary programs used with qemu-kvm.

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

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

sudo yum -y install qemu-kvm-common.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove qemu-kvm-common.x86_64

qemu-kvm-common.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ksmtuned.conf
/etc/qemu-kvm
/etc/qemu-kvm/bridge.conf
/etc/sasl2/qemu-kvm.conf
/etc/sysconfig/ksm
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ksm.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ksmtuned.service
/usr/libexec/ksmctl
/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
/usr/sbin/ksmtuned
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README.rhel6-gpxe-source
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README.systemtap
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-doc.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qemu-tech.html
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qmp-commands.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qmp-events.txt
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/qmp-spec.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-kvm.1.gz
/usr/share/qemu-kvm
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/ar
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/bepo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/common
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/da
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/de
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/de-ch
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/en-gb
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/en-us
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/es
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/et
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fi
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr-be
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr-ca
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/fr-ch
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/hr
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/hu
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/is
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/it
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/ja
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/lt
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/lv
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/mk
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/modifiers
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/nl
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/nl-be
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/no
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/pl
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/pt
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/pt-br
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/ru
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/sl
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/sv
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/th
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/keymaps/tr
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/simpletrace.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/simpletrace.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/simpletrace.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/__init__.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/__init__.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/__init__.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/__init__.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/__init__.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/__init__.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/dtrace.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/dtrace.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/dtrace.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/events.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/events.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/events.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ftrace.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ftrace.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ftrace.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/simple.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/simple.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/simple.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/stderr.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/stderr.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/stderr.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ust.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ust.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/backend/ust.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/__init__.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/__init__.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/__init__.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/c.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/c.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/c.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/d.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/d.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/d.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/events_c.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/events_c.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/events_c.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/events_h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/events_h.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/events_h.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/h.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/h.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/h.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/simpletrace_stap.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/simpletrace_stap.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/simpletrace_stap.pyo
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/stap.py
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/stap.pyc
/usr/share/qemu-kvm/tracetool/format/stap.pyo

References

qemu-kvm-common.x86_64 website

Summary

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