How To Install virt-install on CentOS 8

virt-install is Utilities for installing virtual machines

Introduction

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

What is `virt-install`

Package includes several command line utilities, including virt-install (build and install new VMs) and virt-clone (clone an existing virtual machine).

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

Install virt-install 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 virt-install using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virt-install

Install virt-install 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 virt-install using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-install

How To Uninstall virt-install on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the virt-install package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove virt-install

virt-install Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/virt-clone
/usr/bin/virt-install
/usr/bin/virt-xml
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-clone
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-install
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-xml
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-clone.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-xml.1.gz
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-clone
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-xml

References

virt-install website

Summary

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