This is simply a documentation of my install experience with CentOS 7 when setting out to set it up as a VM server for testing.

Nothing is installed by default including sudo (why is the install image so large if this is the case?) I think that it may be due to the fact that you can choose to install much more than just the minimal install. The minimal install has the bare minimum installed by default which is nice, similar to arch and debian.

Weird issue, I tried did a ctrl+c and ctrl+z when to quickly stop a yum command that I did not mean to run. Immediately after I tried to run it again with the command that I wanted and yum refused to run, had to reboot.

Since this is not included in the default repos, an additional repo needs to be added.

wget dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/e/epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ihv epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install htop

ffmpeg is also not in the default repos, requires an additional repo to be added

pciutils is not installed by default This means lspci does nothing, package manager does not suggest to install anything either.

yum install pciutils

For some reason this is not included in any repo package that makes sense, instead you must install policycoreutils-python.

yum install policycoreutils-python