How To Install OVMF on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install OVMF
on CentOS 7.
What is OVMF
OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install OVMF
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install OVMF.
Install OVMF on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install OVMF
using yum
by running the following command:
Install OVMF on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install OVMF
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall OVMF on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the OVMF
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install OVMF
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.