How To Install qemu-user on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user on CentOS 7.
What is qemu-user
QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. This package provides the user mode emulation of qemu targets
We can use yum or dnf to install qemu-user on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qemu-user.
Install qemu-user 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-user using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qemu-user
Install qemu-user 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-user using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qemu-user
How To Uninstall qemu-user on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the qemu-user package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qemu-user
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.