How To Install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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-virtd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd
Install fence-virtd 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-virtd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-virtd
How To Uninstall fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the fence-virtd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fence-virtd
fence-virtd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/fence_virt.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/e063c6c2af70a794932c2f93249145b3756e71
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/fa15f96f55a0dbfe4207c6121a13fb86fa7db3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fence_virtd.service
/usr/lib64/fence-virt
/usr/lib64/fence-virt/vsock.so
/usr/sbin/fence_virtd
/usr/share/man/man5/fence_virt.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_virtd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.