How To Install virglrenderer on CentOS 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virglrenderer on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virglrenderer.

Install virglrenderer on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install virglrenderer

Install virglrenderer on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install virglrenderer

How To Uninstall virglrenderer on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove virglrenderer

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Summary

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