How To Install fence-virtd on CentOS 8

fence-virtd is Daemon which handles requests from fence-virt

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on CentOS 8.

What is `fence-virtd`

This package provides the host server framework, fence_virtd, for fence_virt. The fence_virtd host daemon is resposible for processing fencing requests from virtual machines and routing the requests to the appropriate physical machine for action.

We can use yum or dnf to install fence-virtd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virtd.

Install fence-virtd 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd

Install fence-virtd 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-virtd

How To Uninstall fence-virtd on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fence-virtd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fence-virtd

fence-virtd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fence_virt.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/d4fafd4b58d24e712f76ed8405c2eb7ee6c047
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/26f39338f9de89f761b842be45d4e26e3a7517
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fence_virtd.service
/usr/lib64/fence-virt
/usr/lib64/fence-virt/vsock.so
/usr/sbin/fence_virtd
/usr/share/man/man5/fence_virt.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_virtd.8.gz

References

fence-virtd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.