Information about the package, ovirt-guest-agent, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ovirt-guest-agent package is designed for, The oVirt Guest Agent.
Package Name:
ovirt-guest-agent
Summary:
The oVirt Guest Agent
Description:
This is the oVirt management agent running inside the guest. The agent interfaces with the oVirt manager, supplying heart-beat info as well as run-time data from within the guest itself. The agent also accepts control commands to be run executed within the OS (like: shutdown and restart).
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.0.13
Release:
2.el6
Size:
62 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the ovirt-guest-agent package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ovirt-guest-agent
This command will install ovirt-guest-agent on the server.
yum remove ovirt-guest-agent
This command will un-install ovirt-guest-agent on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ovirt-guest-agent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ovirt-guest-agent
This command will un-install ovirt-guest-agent 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 ovirt-guest-agent when using the -y flag.
yum update ovirt-guest-agent
This command will update ovirt-guest-agent to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ovirt-guest-agent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ovirt-guest-agent
This command will update ovirt-guest-agent 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 ovirt-guest-agent when using the -y flag.
yum info ovirt-guest-agent
This command will show you core information about the ovirt-guest-agent package.
yum deplist ovirt-guest-agent
This command will show you the dependencies for ovirt-guest-agent. 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 ovirt-guest-agent
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ovirt-guest-agent. 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.