How To Install virt-manager on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-manager on CentOS 7.
What is virt-manager
Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and LXC. Start, stop, add or remove virtual devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and see resource usage statistics for existing VMs on local or remote machines. Uses libvirt as the backend management API.
We can use yum or dnf to install virt-manager on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virt-manager.
Install virt-manager on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install virt-manager using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install virt-manager
Install virt-manager 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 virt-manager using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install virt-manager
How To Uninstall virt-manager on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the virt-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove virt-manager
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-manager on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
