trying update QEMU on Ubuntu 16.04

[KillerKelvUK]

Well the error message is pretty clear "There is no option group 'spice'"...you could maybe work around this by changing the Display from Spice to VNC however this is a hack, you'd need to debug why you have this error i.e. did the ./configure output in the build process confirm SPICE support.

[yakatape]

Yeah exactly i've work on it but when i try : ./configure --enable-spice i got ouput something like 'you need first install spice client and control."
I've compiled the control spice and installed but for the spice client i need first celt051 and celt libs where i need to find the source and compile it again and retry the compilation of spice client.

I think make a rollback to 2.5.0, and work on it through a VM for the version 2.7.0

Thanks again

[KillerKelvUK]

So the below are the packages I believe are required on your host to build a feature rich qemu installation, you'll find the spice packages listed. If you want all the latest features of qemu 2.7.0 then you need to build and install the virglrenderer package first and then qemu however if you aren't interested in '-vga virtio' then you can skip this part. You could also skip building the later version of libvirt but be aware that if you then try and use a newer feature of qemu that your older version of libvirt isn't aware off then you'll need to use qemu:commandline arg's in your libvirt xml.

general:


    build-essential
    git


virglrenderer : (needed for -vga virtio, https://virgil3d.github.io/)


    dh-autoreconf
    libgbm-dev


qemu v2.6.1 & 2.7.0 :


    python2.7-dev 
    pkg-config
    zlib1g-dev 
    libglib2.0-dev 
    libpixman-1-dev 
    libfdt-dev 
    libsdl1.2-dev 
    libglib2.0-dev 
    libfdt-dev 
    libpixman-1-dev 
    zlib1g-dev 
    libaio-dev 
    libbluetooth-dev 
    libbrlapi-dev 
    libbz2-dev  
    libcap-dev 
    libcap-ng-dev 
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev 
    libgtk-3-dev 
    libibverbs-dev 
    libjpeg8-dev 
    libncurses5-dev 
    libnuma-dev 
    librbd-dev 
    librdmacm-dev 
    libsasl2-dev 
    libsdl1.2-dev 
    libseccomp-dev 
    libsnappy-dev 
    libssh2-1-dev 
    libvde-dev 
    libvdeplug-dev 
    libxen-dev 
    liblzo2-dev 
    valgrind 
    xfslibs-dev
    libspice-server-dev 
    libusb-1.0-0-dev 
    libusbredirparser-dev 
    libusbredirhost-dev 
    libnfs-dev 
    texinfo
    libiscsi-dev 


libvirt v1.3.5 :


    libxml-xpath-perl
    libxml2-utils
    xsltproc
    libpciaccess-dev
    libyajl-dev
    libxml2-dev
    libdevmapper-dev
    libnl-3-dev
    libnl-route-3-dev