How To Install virglrenderer on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer on Rocky Linux 8. virglrenderer is Virgl Rendering library.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer on Rocky Linux 8.

What is virglrenderer

The virgil3d rendering library is a library used by qemu to implement 3D GPU support for the virtio GPU.

We can use yum or dnf to install virglrenderer on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virglrenderer.

Install virglrenderer 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 virglrenderer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virglrenderer

Install virglrenderer 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 virglrenderer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virglrenderer

How To Uninstall virglrenderer on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the virglrenderer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove virglrenderer

virglrenderer Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/45ff6a54a48fbb062ebff1c1a5f7d3c2896228
/usr/lib64/libvirglrenderer.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvirglrenderer.so.1.4.0
/usr/share/licenses/virglrenderer
/usr/share/licenses/virglrenderer/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.