How To Install virtdetect on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtdetect on Fedora 34.
What is virtdetect
This script attempts to detect whether or not a system is running as a guest under virtualization, using various heuristics.
We can use yum or dnf to install virtdetect on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virtdetect.
Install virtdetect 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 virtdetect using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install virtdetect
Install virtdetect 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 virtdetect using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install virtdetect
How To Uninstall virtdetect on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the virtdetect package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove virtdetect
virtdetect Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/virtdetect
/usr/share/doc/virtdetect
/usr/share/doc/virtdetect/README
/usr/share/man/man1/virtdetect.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtdetect on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.