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I am trying to compile QEMU 1.3 with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) with SPICE enabled, but I get this error:

ERROR
ERROR: User requested feature spice
ERROR: configure was not able to find it
ERROR

I have read around, and it seems I should edit the pkg configuration path. I am running Ubuntu, and I tried changing the pkg configuration, but I am guessing...help?

Peter Mortensen
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user1640204
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Now(2021) there exist spice packages for Ubuntu. Use these

sudo apt install libspice-protocol-dev
sudo apt install libspice-server-dev

Remember to configure qemu with --enable-spice.

For reference these are the spice related packages I have.

username@username-H81 ~/b/q/qemu (master)> apt list --installed | grep spice

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.


libspice-client-glib-2.0-8/groovy,now 0.38-2ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5/groovy,now 0.38-2ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libspice-protocol-dev/groovy,groovy,now 0.14.1-2 all [installed]
libspice-server-dev/groovy,now 0.14.3-1ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]
libspice-server1/groovy,now 0.14.3-1ubuntu2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper/groovy,now 0.38-2ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
spice-client-gtk/groovy,now 0.38-2ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
spice-vdagent/groovy-security,groovy-updates,now 0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]
spice-webdavd/groovy,now 2.5-1 amd64 [installed]
Thulashitharan D
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You need to install spice-protocol first. Unfortunately (atleast on 12.10) it is not available in the main repositories, so you will have to download and compile it:

wget http://spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-protocol-0.12.3.tar.bz2
tar -xjf spice-protocol-0.12.3.tar.bz2
cd spice-protocol*
./configure
make
sudo make install

If you prefer you can use git:

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/spice/spice-protocol

If you have build-essentail installed, the compilation should go without any problem.

After this just proceed to the compilation of qemu enabling spice, passing --enable-spice to configure:

./configure --enable-spice
# make & make install

Hope this helps.

Salem
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