How To Install qemu-kvm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm
on CentOS 7.
What is qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. qemu-kvm acts as a virtual machine monitor together with the KVM kernel modules, and emulates the hardware for a full system such as a PC and its associated peripherals.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qemu-kvm
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qemu-kvm.
Install qemu-kvm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install qemu-kvm
using yum
by running the following command:
Install qemu-kvm 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.
After updating yum database, We can install qemu-kvm
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall qemu-kvm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the qemu-kvm
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.