I'm using all 64-bit, both host and guest. And I'm seeing it on two different systems. I currently have installed on one host, my laptop: ~]$ rpm -qa | egrep -i 'virt|qemu|spice|qxl' | sort ipxe-roms-qemu-20130517-2.gitc4bce43.fc19.noarch libgovirt-0.1.0-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-client-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-config-network-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-uml-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-qemu-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-gconfig-0.1.6-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-glib-0.1.6-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-gobject-0.1.6-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-python-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 perl-Sys-Virt-1.0.5-1.fc19.x86_64 qemu-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-common-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-guest-agent-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-img-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-kvm-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-kvm-tools-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-alpha-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-arm-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-cris-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-lm32-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-m68k-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-microblaze-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-mips-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-or32-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-ppc-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-s390x-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-sh4-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-sparc-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-unicore32-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-x86-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-system-xtensa-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 qemu-user-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 redland-virtuoso-1.0.16-2.fc19.x86_64 spice-glib-0.19-1.fc19.x86_64 spice-gtk-0.19-1.fc19.x86_64 spice-gtk3-0.19-1.fc19.x86_64 spice-gtk-python-0.19-1.fc19.x86_64 spice-server-0.12.3-1.fc19.x86_64 spice-vdagent-0.14.0-2.fc19.x86_64 virt-dmesg-0.3.0-8.fc19.x86_64 virt-install-0.10.0-0.5.gitde1695b2.fc19.noarch virt-manager-0.10.0-0.5.gitde1695b2.fc19.noarch virt-manager-common-0.10.0-0.5.gitde1695b2.fc19.noarch virt-top-1.0.8-4.fc19.x86_64 virtuoso-opensource-6.1.6-3.fc19.x86_64 virt-v2v-0.9.0-2.fc19.x86_64 virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64 virt-what-1.12-3.fc19.x86_64 virt-who-0.8-7.fc19.noarch xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-0.8.20130514git77a1594.fc19.x86_64 And, as mentioned above, I create the VM with: virt-install --name=f19tc3 --ram=1024 --vcpus=2 \ --graphics=spice --noautoconsole \ --os-type=linux --os-variant=fedora18 \ --network=network=default,model=virtio \ --cdrom=/var/lib/libvirt/images/Fedora-19-TC3-x86_64-netinst.iso \ --disk=/var/lib/libvirt/images/f19tc3.img,size=10,bus=virtio which creates this: ~]$ virsh dumpxml f19tc3 f19tc3 60db09e8-b482-cf88-668e-2fa9499e22bd 1048576 1048576 2 /machine hvm destroy destroy destroy /usr/bin/qemu-kvm