How To Install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest in Fedora 36. xe-guest-utilities-latest is XAPI Virtual Machine Monitoring Scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Fedora 36.

What is xe-guest-utilities-latest

Scripts for monitoring XAPI project virtual machine. Writes distribution version information and IP address to XenStore. This package follows the latest version of xe-guest-utilities upstream.

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

Install xe-guest-utilities-latest 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 xe-guest-utilities-latest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xe-guest-utilities-latest

Install xe-guest-utilities-latest 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 xe-guest-utilities-latest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xe-guest-utilities-latest

How To Uninstall xe-guest-utilities-latest on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the xe-guest-utilities-latest package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xe-guest-utilities-latest

xe-guest-utilities-latest Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/3981a74783a9a06c36f5c7eff34af897ba6993
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/083c6786e507889406e233ae9b0bbbff819c1a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/xe-linux-distribution.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/z10-xen-vcpu-hotplug.rules
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-chmod
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-exists
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-list
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-ls
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-read
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-rm
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-watch
/usr/libexec/xe-guest-utilities/xenstore-write
/usr/sbin/xe-daemon
/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution
/usr/share/doc/xe-guest-utilities-latest
/usr/share/doc/xe-guest-utilities-latest/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/xe-guest-utilities-latest
/usr/share/licenses/xe-guest-utilities-latest/LICENSE
/var/cache/xe-linux-distribution

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xe-guest-utilities-latest on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).