How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu on CentOS 8.
What is libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
The qemu driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon, providing an implementation of the hypervisor driver APIs using QEMU
We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 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-qemu using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 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-qemu using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/libvirt/qemu
/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
/etc/libvirt/virtqemud.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/libvirtd.qemu
/run/libvirt/qemu
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/5e03409500866c03d757fdbcfa3c685885be8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/908ce025d7bd72a397382a8d5503a1f3456cc9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtqemud-admin.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtqemud-ro.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtqemud.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtqemud.socket
/usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_qemu.so
/usr/sbin/virtqemud
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/libvirtd_qemu.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_virtqemud.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/virtqemud.aug
/var/cache/libvirt/qemu
/var/lib/libvirt/qemu
/var/lib/libvirt/swtpm
/var/log/libvirt/qemu
/var/log/swtpm/libvirt/qemu
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.