How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent.x86_64 Package on Oracle Linux 9

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent.x86_64" package

Please follow the steps below to install qemu-guest-agent.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 9


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "qemu-guest-agent.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall qemu-guest-agent.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 9:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                qemu-guest-agent.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-guest-agent.x86_64 package on Oracle Linux 9

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Available Packages
Name : qemu-guest-agent
Epoch : 17
Version : 8.0.0
Release : 16.el9_3.3
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 485 k
Source : qemu-kvm-8.0.0-16.el9_3.3.src.rpm
Repository : ol9_appstream
Summary : QEMU guest agent
URL : http://www.qemu.org/
License : GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and CC-BY
Description : qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for
: the KVM hypervisor.
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: This package provides an agent to run inside guests, which communicates
: with the host over a virtio-serial channel named "org.qemu.guest_agent.0"
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: This package does not need to be installed on the host OS.