Information about the package, virt-manager, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The virt-manager package is designed for, Virtual Machine Manager.
Package Name:
virt-manager
Summary:
Virtual Machine Manager
Description:
Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and QEmu. Start, stop, add or remove virtual devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and see resource usage statistics for existing VMs on local or remote machines. Uses libvirt as the backend management API.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.9.0
Release:
34.el6
Size:
1.1 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the virt-manager package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install virt-manager
This command will install virt-manager on the server.
yum remove virt-manager
This command will un-install virt-manager on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove virt-manager, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove virt-manager
This command will un-install virt-manager 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 virt-manager when using the -y flag.
yum update virt-manager
This command will update virt-manager to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove virt-manager, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update virt-manager
This command will update virt-manager 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 virt-manager when using the -y flag.
yum info virt-manager
This command will show you core information about the virt-manager package.
yum deplist virt-manager
This command will show you the dependencies for virt-manager. 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 virt-manager
This command will check if there is an update waiting on virt-manager. 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.