How To Install vhostmd on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd in Fedora 36. vhostmd is Virtualization host metrics daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vhostmd.

Install vhostmd 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 vhostmd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vhostmd

Install vhostmd 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 vhostmd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vhostmd

How To Uninstall vhostmd on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove vhostmd

vhostmd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/vhostmd
/etc/vhostmd/vhostmd.conf
/etc/vhostmd/vhostmd.dtd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/be9a9c65f78862b6e9f50f15911bf92beb28f5
/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

vhostmd website

Summary

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