How To Install testcloud on Fedora 34

testcloud is Tool for running cloud images locally

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install testcloud on Fedora 34.

What is testcloud

testcloud is a relatively simple system which is capable of booting images designed for cloud systems on a local system with minimal configuration. testcloud is designed to be (and remain) somewhat simple, trading fancy cloud system features for ease of use and sanity in development.

We can use yum or dnf to install testcloud on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install testcloud.

Install testcloud on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install testcloud using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install testcloud

Install testcloud on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install testcloud using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install testcloud

How To Uninstall testcloud on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the testcloud package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove testcloud

testcloud Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-testcloud-nonroot-libvirt-access.rules
/etc/testcloud
/etc/testcloud/settings.py
/usr/bin/t7d
/usr/bin/testcloud
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/testcloud.1.gz
/var/lib/testcloud
/var/lib/testcloud/backingstores
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-coreos-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/instances
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-testcloud-nonroot-libvirt-access.rules
/etc/testcloud
/etc/testcloud/settings.py
/usr/bin/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/testcloud.1.gz
/var/lib/testcloud
/var/lib/testcloud/backingstores
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/instances

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install testcloud on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.