removing virsh

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MikeBerger
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removing virsh

Post by MikeBerger » 2019/01/14 16:43:23

In planning to remove NetworkManager, I came across virsh, which I think I do not need.
So I thinking of:

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virsh net-destroy default
virsh net-undefine default
systemctl stop libvirtd
systemctl disable libvirtd
yum remove "*virt"* "*virsh*"
Is this ok? Including the yum remove ...?

Thanks,
Mike.

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Re: removing virsh

Post by TrevorH » 2019/01/14 16:47:33

It's almost certainly installed as a result of gnome-boxes being part of the default GUI software group. That pulls in libvirt et al.

There's no package specifically for virsh, it's supplied by libvirt-client so that's the package name you need to get shot of.
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Re: removing virsh

Post by MikeBerger » 2019/01/14 17:02:20

So I did:

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yum remove libvirt-client
but

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yum list installed "*virt"* "*virsh*"
still returns 36 lines, most of which start with "libvirt".

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Re: removing virsh

Post by TrevorH » 2019/01/14 17:08:41

If you have no need for virtualisation then you can probably get shot of those too.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: removing virsh

Post by MikeBerger » 2019/01/14 17:49:50

I did it and lost my K3B, which I reinstalled and got almost as many packages as I had deleted.

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