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## 14. Installation

### 14.1. Installing Spice on RHEL or Fedora

Be aware that RHEL has no builds of qemu/spice-server for i386, only x86_64 builds are available. RHEL >=6 and Fedora >=13

    yum install qemu-kvm virt-viewer

The package spice-protocol will be downloaded automatically as a dependency of package kvm.

#### RHEVM Users

oVirt/RHEVM users could be also interested in the spice-xpi package as it allows you to execute spice-client directly from the oVirt/RHEVM UserPortal.

    yum install spice-xpi

### 14.2. General build instructions

This section is for distributions that don’t have Spice packages in their repositories. It will show you step by step how to build the required Spice components.

#### Client requirements

See the README file in spice-gtk for the list of dependencies.

#### Host requirements

- KVM supported by kernel (It should work also without KVM, but it’s not being tested as most Linux distrubitions already support KVM.)

#### Guest requirements

Linux guest. spice-vdagent requires virtio-serial support to be enabled. This is described in the chapter Section 4, “Agent”. Guest should have installed qxl driver (xorg-x11-drv-qxl on Fedora and RHEL).

Windows guest. Drivers for QXL and drivers for virtio-serial require Win XP SP3.

#### Building

The environment variable `$BUILD_ROOT` will point to a directory with stored sources and will be used during the whole build process. The variable `$INST_ROOT` will point to a directory in which Spice will be installed.

### Important

These instructions may be outdated. Feel free to ask on the Spice mailing list if you need help building from source.

    export BUILD_ROOT=/tmp/spice; mkdir $BUILD_ROOT
    export INST_ROOT="/opt/spice"; mkdir $INST_ROOT
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INST_ROOT/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

    cd $BUILD_ROOT
    git clone git://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice
    cd $BUILD_ROOT/spice
    ./configure --prefix=$INST_ROOT
    make
    make install

    cd $BUILD_ROOT
    git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
    cd $BUILD_ROOT/qemu
    ./configure --prefix=$INST_ROOT --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-spice
    make
    make install

#### Setting up PATH

Last steps before starting with Spice are to set proper `PATH` variable. For example RHEL is using /usr/libexec as directory for qemu-kvm binaries. The following setup should be suitable for qemu and Spice built according to the instructions in this chapter.

    echo "export PATH=$PATH:$INST_ROOT/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.bashrc

You should now be able to access the qemu-system-x86_64 Spice binary.

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