How To Install fence-virtd on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is fence-virtd
This package provides the host server framework, fence_virtd, for fence_virt. The fence_virtd host daemon is resposible for processing fencing requests from virtual machines and routing the requests to the appropriate physical machine for action.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fence-virtd
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virtd.
Install fence-virtd on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd
Install fence-virtd on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-virtd
How To Uninstall fence-virtd on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the fence-virtd
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fence-virtd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.