[Spice-devel] [spice-server] doc: Be more explicit about virgl requirements

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Fri Mar 25 12:43:45 UTC 2016


This is an attempt at listing the versions of the various packages which
needs to be up to date for a functional virgl + spice.
---
 docs/manual/manual.txt | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.txt b/docs/manual/manual.txt
index a1c057c..9e41c36 100644
--- a/docs/manual/manual.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/manual.txt
@@ -906,9 +906,17 @@ GL acceleration (virgl)
 
 OpenGL acceleration is currently local only (it has to go through a Unix socket)
 and it needs guest support. It's currently limited to recent linux
-distributions (for example up to date Fedora 23 + updated mesa packages from
+distributions (for example, as a guest, you need an up to date Fedora 23 +
+updated mesa packages from
 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kraxel/virgl/[copr:kraxel]).
 
+Host-side, you need qemu 2.6, libvirt 1.3.3 and spice 0.13.1, as well as a 4.4
+Linux kernel and Mesa 11.1.
+
+Client-side, you need spice-gtk 0.31.
+
+Guest-side, you need Mesa 11.1 and a 4.4 Linux kernel.
+
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-- 
2.5.5



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