How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7. libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc is LXC driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7.

What is `libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc`

The LXC driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon, providing an implementation of the hypervisor driver APIs using the Linux kernel

We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc.

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc 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 libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc

References

libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.