How To Install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 is Libvirt backend for fence-virtd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64

Provides fence_virtd with a connection to libvirt to fence virtual machines. Useful for running a cluster of virtual machines on a desktop.

We can use yum to install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64.

Install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64

How To Uninstall fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64

fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/fence-virt/libvirt.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.