Information about the package, libvirt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libvirt package is designed for, Library providing a simple virtualization API.
Package Name:
libvirt
Summary:
Library providing a simple virtualization API
URL:
Description:
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.10.2
Release:
62.el6_9.1
Size:
2.4 M
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libvirt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libvirt
This command will install libvirt on the server.
yum remove libvirt
This command will un-install libvirt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libvirt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libvirt
This command will un-install libvirt on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libvirt when using the -y flag.
yum update libvirt
This command will update libvirt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libvirt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libvirt
This command will update libvirt to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libvirt when using the -y flag.
yum info libvirt
This command will show you core information about the libvirt package.
yum deplist libvirt
This command will show you the dependencies for libvirt. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libvirt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libvirt. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.