How To Install tcmu-runner on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcmu-runner on Kali Linux.
What is tcmu-runner
tcmu-runner is:
LIO is the SCSI target in the Linux kernel. It is entirely kernel code, and allows exported SCSI logical units (LUNs) to be backed by regular files or block devices. But, if one want to get fancier with the capabilities of the device one is emulating, the kernel is not necessarily the right place. While there are userspace libraries for compression, encryption, and clustered storage solutions like Ceph or Gluster, these are not accessible from the kernel.
The TCMU userspace-passthrough backstore allows a userspace process to handle requests to a LUN. But since the kernel-user interface that TCMU provides must be fast and flexible, it is complex enough that one would like to avoid each userspace handler having to write boilerplate code.
tcmu-runner handles the messy details of the TCMU interface – UIO, netlink, pthreads, and DBus – and exports a more friendly C plugin module API. Modules using this API are called “TCMU handlers”. Handler authors can write code just to handle the SCSI commands as desired, and can also link with whatever userspace libraries they like.
This is the daemon package
There are three methods to install tcmu-runner on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tcmu-runner Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tcmu-runner using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tcmu-runnerInstall tcmu-runner Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tcmu-runner using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tcmu-runnerInstall tcmu-runner Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tcmu-runner using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tcmu-runnerHow To Uninstall tcmu-runner on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tcmu-runner package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tcmu-runnerUninstall tcmu-runner And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tcmu-runner and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcmu-runnerRemove tcmu-runner Configurations and Data
To remove tcmu-runner configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tcmu-runnerRemove tcmu-runner configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tcmu-runner configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcmu-runnerDependencies
tcmu-runner have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcmu-runner package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
