How To Install qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 is QEMU iSCSI block driver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64`

This package provides the additional iSCSI block driver for QEMU. Install this package if you want to access iSCSI volumes.

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

Install qemu-block-iscsi.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 qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64

How To Uninstall qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64

qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/qemu/block-iscsi.so

References

qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.