How To Install qemu-guest-agent on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-guest-agent on CentOS 7. qemu-guest-agent is QEMU guest agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-guest-agent on CentOS 7.

What is qemu-guest-agent

qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. This package provides an agent to run inside guests, which communicates with the host over a virtio-serial channel named “org.qemu.guest_agent.0” This package does not need to be installed on the host OS.

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

Install qemu-guest-agent on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install qemu-guest-agent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qemu-guest-agent

Install qemu-guest-agent 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 qemu-guest-agent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qemu-guest-agent

How To Uninstall qemu-guest-agent on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the qemu-guest-agent package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qemu-guest-agent

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-guest-agent on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.