How To Install systemtap-runtime-virthost on CentOS 8

systemtap-runtime-virthost is Systemtap Cross-VM Instrumentation - host

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-virthost on CentOS 8.

What is systemtap-runtime-virthost

This package includes the components required to run systemtap scripts inside a libvirt-managed domain from the host without using a network connection.

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

Install systemtap-runtime-virthost 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 systemtap-runtime-virthost using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install systemtap-runtime-virthost

Install systemtap-runtime-virthost 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 systemtap-runtime-virthost using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install systemtap-runtime-virthost

How To Uninstall systemtap-runtime-virthost on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the systemtap-runtime-virthost package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove systemtap-runtime-virthost

systemtap-runtime-virthost Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/stapvirt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/fa59583eb434cd01260c3114389fcf88b31d2d
/usr/share/man/man1/stapvirt.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-virthost on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.