How To Install fence-virtd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virtd.
Install fence-virtd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-virtd
Install fence-virtd 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd
How To Uninstall fence-virtd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fence-virtd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fence-virtd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.