Comment 17 for bug 970234

I've noticed this myself.

For what it's worth, a lot of people here are experiencing it with Windows VMs. I tried booting a Zentyal system with a qxl emulated card and got the same result.

root@bneprdcn0:/var/lib/libvirt/images# dpkg -l qemu-kvm*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.7 Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware
ii qemu-kvm-extras 1.0.50-2012.03-0ubuntu QEMU system and user mode emulation (transitional package)
ii qemu-kvm-spice 1.0.50-2012.03-0ubuntu Full virtualization on amd64 hardware

This is on a Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 server, installed via PXEboot. The workaround for the first VM was to just use VNC, since it's only Zentyal and I'll only be using the console for getting networking going (something I have done; simple as blasting away the udev network naming rules).

For the second VM on that host, it'll be Windows Server 2008r2, where the graphical console is much more important.