Looking Glass on Fedora Howto

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If someone wants to just follow a step-by-step guide on fedora, this should work

  1. sudo dnf install git SDL2-devel SDL2_ttf-devel openssl-devel spice-protocol fontconfig-devel libX11-devel gnu-free-mono-fonts ivshmem-tools libgle-devel.x86_64

  2. sudo dnf groupinstall “Development Tools” “Development Libraries”

  3. git clone https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass.git

  4. cd LookingGlass/client
    make

  5. sudo usermod -aG qemu yourusername

  6. Edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf and set

user = "qemu"
group = "qemu"
dynamic_ownership = 1

  1. Edit /etc/selinux/config and set to permissive

  2. virsh edit WindowsVMname

add the following under kvm (next to it add xmlns:qemu=‘http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0’)

<qemu:commandline>
<qemu:arg value=’-device’/>
<qemu:arg value=‘ivshmem-doorbell,chardev=ivshmem,vectors=1’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-chardev’/>
<qemu:arg value=‘socket,path=/home/yourusername/ivshmem_socket,id=ivshmem’/>
</qemu:commandline>

  1. sudo -u qemu ivshmem-server -p /tmp/ivshmem.pid -S /tmp/ivshmem_socket -l 16M -n 8

  • If need to reset server*

    sudo rm /tmp/ivshmem_socket

  1. Give read/write access to /tmp/ivshmem_socket

    sudo chmod 777 /tmp/ivshmem_socket

  2. Run VM on Linux

  3. Install drivers and exe on Windows

  4. Run exe on Windows

  5. Run ./client/bin/looking-glass-client on Linux

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Please don’t post this here… this is a help & support thread, not a howto thread. Feel free to create a thread with this information.

Also, DO NOT tell people to do this, help them set their permissions properly.

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We have the selinux stuff you need to add as well

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Moved to its own topic.

@useraddf worth looking at the suggestions above and implementing those into your guide as it’s currently a bit of bad practice in their.

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I’d gladly update it, but I’m not sure what to change, other than maybe the chmod issue. it works with 770 too, but other than that I’ll need some guidance.

edit: you can delete this thread as I prepared another one.

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