How To Install fence-virt on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt on Rocky Linux 8. fence-virt is A pluggable fencing framework for virtual machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virt on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `fence-virt`

Fencing agent for virtual machines.

We can use yum or dnf to install fence-virt on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virt.

Install fence-virt on Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fence-virt

fence-virt Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/bc78c8dc1dc7a36cb056fa611c6ceffcd5eedb
/usr/sbin/fence_virt
/usr/sbin/fence_xvm
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/README
/usr/share/doc/fence-virt/TODO
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.