How To Install virtdetect on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtdetect
on CentOS 7.
What is virtdetect
This script attempts to detect whether or not a system is running as a guest under virtualization, using various heuristics.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install virtdetect
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virtdetect.
Install virtdetect on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install virtdetect
using yum
by running the following command:
Install virtdetect 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.
After updating yum database, We can install virtdetect
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall virtdetect on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the virtdetect
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtdetect
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.