QEMU with SPICE support for Alma / Rocky / Oracle / RHEL 9 (aka el9)

The official virtualization packages for RHEL 9 lack support for hardware acceleration, and this made my graphical development environments unusuable. As a result, my choices were rebuild the packages with SPICE support, or switch to a commercial/proprietary alternative. Ultimately I've decided to rebuild the packages with SPICE support.

Use the INSTALL.sh script to replace the default packages with the RPMs in this repository. If you would like to build the packages yourself, you can use the BUILD.sh script. These RPMS were built using equivalent Alma and Fedora source packages, which is why some versions are newer than what is shipped with RHEL. As such a handful of additional features are enabled in addition to SPICE support.

To quickly download and installthese packages without using the INSTALL.sh script:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ladar/qemu-spice-el9.git && cd qemu-spice-el9
export PACKAGES="$(ls *rpm depends/libblkio*rpm | grep -Ev '\.src\.|debug|ocaml|vala|uki\-direct|xorg\-x11\-drv')"
sudo dnf install --enablerepo=baseos --enablerepo=appstream --enablerepo=epel --enablerepo=crb $PACKAGES

The edk2-*.btrh9.src.rpm, qemu-*.btrh9.src.rpm and qemu-user-debuginfo-*.btrh9.x86_64.rpm packages exceed the repo size limit. As a result, these packages have been split into eight files. Use the following commands to split/reassemble the original RPM files.

# The packages were split using these commands.
export EDKRPM="$(ls edk2-*.btrh9.src.rpm)" && \
export QEMURPM="$(ls qemu-*.btrh9.src.rpm)" && \
export QEMUDEBUGRPM="$(ls qemu-user-debuginfo-*.btrh9.x86_64.rpm)" && \
split --numeric-suffixes=01 --number=8 $EDKRPM $EDKRPM. && \
split --numeric-suffixes=01 --number=8 $QEMURPM $QEMURPM. && \
split --numeric-suffixes=01 --number=8 $QEMUDEBUGRPM $QEMUDEBUGRPM.

# To recombine them.
export EDKRPM="$(ls edk2-*.btrh9.src.rpm.01 | sed 's/.01$//g')"
export QEMURPM="$(ls qemu-*.btrh9.src.rpm.01 | sed 's/.01$//g')"
export QEMUDEBUGRPM="$(ls qemu-user-debuginfo-*.btrh9.x86_64.rpm.01 | sed 's/.01$//g')"
export EDKFILES="$(ls edk2-*.btrh9.src.rpm.0[1-8])"
export QEMUFILES="$(ls qemu-*.btrh9.src.rpm.0[1-8])"
export QEMUDEBUGFILES="$(ls qemu-user-debuginfo-*.btrh9.x86_64.rpm.0[1-8])"
cat $EDKFILES > $EDKRPM=
cat $QEMUFILES > $QEMURPM
cat $QEMUDEBUGFILES > $QEMUDEBUGRPM
sha256sum --quiet -c SHA256SUMS

Since these packages won't be needed in most cases, I felt this was better than using LFS.