How To Install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8.
What is spice-qxl-wddm-dod
QXL is a paravirtualized display driver and a part of SPICE project. This package provides QXL display-only driver for Windows 10 virtual machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-qxl-wddm-dod.
Install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install spice-qxl-wddm-dod using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-qxl-wddm-dod
Install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install spice-qxl-wddm-dod using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-qxl-wddm-dod
How To Uninstall spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the spice-qxl-wddm-dod package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-qxl-wddm-dod
spice-qxl-wddm-dod Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/spice/QxlWddmDod_0.21.2.0_x64.msi
/usr/share/spice/QxlWddmDod_0.21.2.0_x86.msi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
