How To Install fence-virt on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt in Fedora 36. fence-virt is A pluggable fencing framework for virtual machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt on Fedora 36.

What is `fence-virt`

Fencing agent for virtual machines.

We can use yum or dnf to install fence-virt on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virt.

Install fence-virt on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install fence-virt

Install fence-virt on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-virt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-virt

How To Uninstall fence-virt on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fence-virt

fence-virt Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/8ea1052a9c6ed9c1034768c47a9ddbde8dbcc9
/usr/sbin/fence_virt
/usr/sbin/fence_xvm
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/README
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/TODO
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/architecture.txt
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/fence_virt.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_virt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_xvm.8.gz

References

fence-virt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).