How To Install vhostmd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd on Fedora 34.
What is vhostmd
vhostmd provides a “metrics communication channel” between a host and its hosted virtual machines, allowing limited introspection of host resource usage from within virtual machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install vhostmd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vhostmd.
Install vhostmd 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 vhostmd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vhostmd
Install vhostmd 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 vhostmd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vhostmd
How To Uninstall vhostmd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the vhostmd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vhostmd
vhostmd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/vhostmd
/etc/vhostmd/vhostmd.conf
/etc/vhostmd/vhostmd.dtd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/49c0b9f8017b2a584feecb8e56e9ecee077dad
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vhostmd.service
/usr/sbin/vhostmd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/README
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/mdisk.xml
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/metric.dtd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/vhostmd.dtd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/vhostmd.xml
/usr/share/man/man8/vhostmd.8.gz
/usr/share/vhostmd
/usr/share/vhostmd/scripts
/usr/share/vhostmd/scripts/pagerate.pl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.