How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter on CentOS 8

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter is Nwfilter driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter on CentOS 8.

What is libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter

The nwfilter driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon, providing an implementation of the firewall APIs using the ebtables, iptables and ip6tables capabilities

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

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter 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 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter 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 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/libvirt/nwfilter
/etc/libvirt/virtnwfilterd.conf
/run/libvirt/network
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/bf43d53744bdb94a1fcfa8a929720e9219d3e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/0507f7ed481041bfadb1e75a5413d36ecf1f64
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtnwfilterd-admin.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtnwfilterd-ro.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtnwfilterd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtnwfilterd.socket
/usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_nwfilter.so
/usr/sbin/virtnwfilterd
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_virtnwfilterd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/virtnwfilterd.aug

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.