How To Install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8. vhostmd is Virtualization host metrics daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8.

What is vhostmd

vhostmd provides a “metrics communication channel” between a host and its hosted virtual machines, allowing limited introspection of host resource usage from within virtual machines.

We can use yum or dnf to install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vhostmd.

Install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install vhostmd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vhostmd

Install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install vhostmd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vhostmd

How To Uninstall vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the vhostmd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vhostmd

vhostmd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/vhostmd
/etc/vhostmd/vhostmd.conf
/etc/vhostmd/vhostmd.dtd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/2db189e363022457261dd6ac4acf4ea5bc5a1e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vhostmd.service
/usr/sbin/vhostmd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/README
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/mdisk.xml
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/metric.dtd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/vhostmd.dtd
/usr/share/doc/vhostmd/vhostmd.xml
/usr/share/man/man8/vhostmd.8.gz
/usr/share/vhostmd
/usr/share/vhostmd/scripts

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vhostmd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.