Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server vs qemu-kvm-spice on Ubuntu Precise

May 22, 2012

This post follows up Bug #998435 qemukvmspice doesn’t support spice/qxl installs

Build bellow is based on upstream (vs linaro) version of qemu-kvm 1.0 on Ubuntu Precise. View bug description above regarding details of qemu-kvm-spice misbehavior.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir80
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu qemu-common qemu-utils \
spice-client libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libusbredir libusbredir-dev usbredir-server \
libspice-protocol-dev libspice-server-dev \
libspice-client-glib-2.0-1 libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev \
python-spice-client-gtk spice-client-gtk

$ sudo apt-get install virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer
$ sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/

$ sudo adduser $USER libvirtd
REBOOT

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Link to PPA Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server
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Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server & Spice 0.10.1 with Visio patches for Windows
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Link to PPA Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server & Spice 0.10.1 with Visio patches for Windows
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