How To Install xe-guest-utilities-latest on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on CentOS 8.
What is xe-guest-utilities-latest
Scripts for monitoring XAPI project virtual machine. Writes distribution version information and IP address to XenStore. This package follows the latest version of xe-guest-utilities upstream.
We can use yum or dnf to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xe-guest-utilities-latest.
Install xe-guest-utilities-latest 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 xe-guest-utilities-latest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xe-guest-utilities-latest
Install xe-guest-utilities-latest 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 xe-guest-utilities-latest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xe-guest-utilities-latest
How To Uninstall xe-guest-utilities-latest on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xe-guest-utilities-latest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xe-guest-utilities-latest
xe-guest-utilities-latest Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/0726e517630d13f14d1d5e1406959eb266d5da
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/8b17082e459e08919ba5d9022ea5394036ff15
/usr/lib/systemd/system/xe-linux-distribution.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/z10-xen-vcpu-hotplug.rules
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-chmod
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-exists
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-list
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-ls
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-read
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-rm
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-watch
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-write
/usr/sbin/xe-daemon
/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution
/usr/share/licenses/xe-guest-utilities-latest
/usr/share/licenses/xe-guest-utilities-latest/LICENSE
/var/cache/xe-linux-distribution
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.