How To Install mdevctl on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mdevctl on Rocky Linux 8.
What is mdevctl
mdevctl is a utility for managing and persisting devices in the mediated device device framework of the Linux kernel. Mediated devices are sub-devices of a parent device (ex. a vGPU) which can be dynamically created and potentially used by drivers like vfio-mdev for assignment to virtual machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install mdevctl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mdevctl.
Install mdevctl 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 mdevctl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mdevctl
Install mdevctl 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 mdevctl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mdevctl
How To Uninstall mdevctl on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mdevctl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mdevctl
mdevctl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/mdevctl.d
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-mdevctl.rules
/usr/sbin/lsmdev
/usr/sbin/mdevctl
/usr/share/doc/mdevctl
/usr/share/doc/mdevctl/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mdevctl
/usr/share/licenses/mdevctl/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/lsmdev.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mdevctl.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mdevctl on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.