How To Install ovirt-guest-agent-common on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ovirt-guest-agent-common on CentOS 7.
What is ovirt-guest-agent-common
This is the oVirt management agent running inside the guest. The agent interfaces with the oVirt manager, supplying heart-beat info as well as run-time data from within the guest itself. The agent also accepts control commands to be run executed within the OS (like
We can use yum or dnf to install ovirt-guest-agent-common on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ovirt-guest-agent-common.
Install ovirt-guest-agent-common on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ovirt-guest-agent-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ovirt-guest-agent-common
Install ovirt-guest-agent-common 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 ovirt-guest-agent-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ovirt-guest-agent-common
How To Uninstall ovirt-guest-agent-common on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ovirt-guest-agent-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ovirt-guest-agent-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ovirt-guest-agent-common on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
