How To Install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on CentOS 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 CentOS 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 CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 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 CentOS 8
/usr/share/spice/QxlWddmDod_0.20.1.0_x64.msi
/usr/share/spice/QxlWddmDod_0.20.1.0_x86.msi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-qxl-wddm-dod on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.