Installation

Beta Feature: The Virt task driver is in beta and under active development. Refer to the repo README for the latest updates. Do not use this driver in production environments.

Use the following instructions to download the task driver for use on your Nomad client host.

Download a [precompiled binary](https://releases.hashicorp.com/nomad-driver-virt/) and
verify the binary using the available SHA-256 sums. Unzip the package. Make sure that the `nomad-driver-virt` binary is on your
[plugin_dir](/nomad/docs/configuration#plugin_dir) path, specified by the client's config file,
before continuing with the other guides.

Install the required packages.
 
```shell-session
$ sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install wget gpg coreutils
```
 
Add the HashiCorp [GPG key][gpg-key].
 
```shell-session
$ wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
```
 
Add the official HashiCorp Linux test repository.
 
```shell-session
$ echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) test" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
```
 
Update and install.
 
```shell-session
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nomad-driver-virt
```

Install `yum-config-manager` to manage your repositories.
 
```shell-session
$ sudo yum install -y yum-utils
```
 
Use `yum-config-manager` to add the official HashiCorp Linux repository.
 
```shell-session
$ sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/RHEL/hashicorp.repo
```
 
Edit the repo file at `/etc/yum.repos.d/hashicorp.repo` and set `enabled=1` for `[hashicorp-test]`.
 
Install.
 
```shell-session
$ sudo yum -y install nomad-driver-virt
```