How To Install fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8.
What is fence-virtd-libvirt
Provides fence_virtd with a connection to libvirt to fence virtual machines. Useful for running a cluster of virtual machines on a desktop.
We can use yum or dnf to install fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virtd-libvirt.
Install fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd-libvirt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd-libvirt
Install fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd-libvirt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-virtd-libvirt
How To Uninstall fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fence-virtd-libvirt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fence-virtd-libvirt
fence-virtd-libvirt Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/23d7fbcda8ffb984cc68ffbe6cec8562277b1b
/usr/lib64/fence-virt/virt.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-libvirt on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.