How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 is QEMU driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64`

The qemu driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon, providing an implementation of the hypervisor driver APIs using QEMU

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

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.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 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64

libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libvirt/qemu
/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/libvirtd.qemu
/usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_qemu.so
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/libvirtd_qemu.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
/var/cache/libvirt/qemu
/var/lib/libvirt/qemu
/var/lib/libvirt/swtpm
/var/log/libvirt/qemu
/var/log/swtpm/libvirt/qemu
/var/run/libvirt/qemu

References

libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.