The latest QEMU as a snap package with GTK, SDL2 and Virgil 3D enabled
To read more about QEMU see https://www.qemu.org/ To read more about Virgil 3D support go to https://virgil3d.github.io/
The snap package source can be found at https://github.com/ogra1/qemu-virgil-snap
If your system supports kvm please make sure to connect the kvm interface after you installed qemu-virgl.
sudo snap connect qemu-virgil:kvm
Then you can run the VM like below.
qemu-virgil -enable-kvm -m 512 -device virtio-vga,virgl=on -display sdl,gl=on
-netdev user,id=ethernet.0,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 -device rtl8139,netdev=ethernet.0
-soundhw ac97 some.img
For qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64 VMs the snap ships the qemu-virgil.arm and qemu-virgil.arm64 commands.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 7 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 8 and RHEL 7, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install qemu-virgil, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install qemu-virgil
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft.io now.
