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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-daemon.x86_64 is Server side daemon and supporting files for libvirt library

Introduction

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

What is libvirt-daemon.x86_64

Server side daemon required to manage the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux. Requires a hypervisor specific sub-RPM for specific drivers.

We can use yum to install libvirt-daemon.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libvirt-daemon.x86_64

libvirt-daemon.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libvirt
/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
/etc/libvirt/virtlockd.conf
/etc/libvirt/virtlogd.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/libvirtd
/etc/sasl2/libvirt.conf
/etc/sysconfig/libvirtd
/etc/sysconfig/virtlockd
/etc/sysconfig/virtlogd
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/60-libvirtd.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virt-guest-shutdown.target
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtlockd-admin.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtlockd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtlockd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtlogd-admin.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtlogd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtlogd.socket
/usr/lib64/libvirt
/usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver
/usr/lib64/libvirt/lock-driver
/usr/lib64/libvirt/lock-driver/lockd.so
/usr/libexec/libvirt_iohelper
/usr/sbin/libvirtd
/usr/sbin/virtlockd
/usr/sbin/virtlogd
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/libvirt_lockd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/libvirtd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_libvirt_lockd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_libvirtd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_virtlockd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/tests/test_virtlogd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/virtlockd.aug
/usr/share/augeas/lenses/virtlogd.aug
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-daemon-4.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-daemon-4.5.0/libvirt-acl.rules
/usr/share/libvirt
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-atset1.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-atset2.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-atset3.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-linux.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-osx.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-qnum.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-usb.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-win32.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeycode-xtkbd.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeyname-linux.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeyname-osx.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/virkeyname-win32.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/libvirtd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/virtlockd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/virtlogd.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.libvirt.api.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.libvirt.unix.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/50-libvirt.rules
/var/cache/libvirt
/var/lib/libvirt/boot
/var/lib/libvirt/filesystems
/var/lib/libvirt/images
/var/log/libvirt
/var/run/libvirt

References

Summary

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