How To Install virglrenderer on Fedora 34

virglrenderer is Virgl Rendering library. Virgl Rendering library.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer on Fedora 34.

What is virglrenderer

The virgil3d rendering library is a library used by qemu to implement 3D GPU support for the virtio GPU. virglrenderer 0.8.2 3.20200212git7d204f39.fc34 x86_64 182 k virglrenderer-0.8.2-3.20200212git7d204f39.fc34.src.rpm fedora Virgl Rendering library. MIT 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virglrenderer.

Install virglrenderer on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install virglrenderer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virglrenderer

Install virglrenderer on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove virglrenderer

virglrenderer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/8a85e21aa14d7d94f60c09c73ede7fc0aafc52
/usr/lib/libvirglrenderer.so.1
/usr/lib/libvirglrenderer.so.1.4.2
/usr/share/licenses/virglrenderer
/usr/share/licenses/virglrenderer/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/1f27484e6b00bd0c8b5016e4879fdbf0e1e3b4
/usr/lib64/libvirglrenderer.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvirglrenderer.so.1.4.2
/usr/share/licenses/virglrenderer
/usr/share/licenses/virglrenderer/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.