How To Install virt-viewer on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer on CentOS 7.
What is virt-viewer
Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC or SPICE-GTK widgets to provide the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC/SPICE server details.
We can use yum or dnf to install virt-viewer on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virt-viewer.
Install virt-viewer 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-viewer using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install virt-viewer
Install virt-viewer 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-viewer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install virt-viewer
How To Uninstall virt-viewer on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the virt-viewer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove virt-viewer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
