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

libvirt-daemon-driver-storage is Storage driver plugin including all backends for the libvirtd daemon

Introduction

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

What is libvirt-daemon-driver-storage

The storage driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon, providing an implementation of the storage APIs using LVM, iSCSI, parted and more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sudo dnf remove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage

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

References

Summary

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