How To Install libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 is Add support for Windows guests to virt-v2v and virt-p2v

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64`

This optional package adds support for Windows guests (NTFS) to the virt-v2v and virt-p2v programs.

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

Install libguestfs-winsupport.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 libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64

How To Uninstall libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64

libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-winsupport.tar.gz
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport-7.2/README

References

libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-winsupport.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.