diff --git a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
index 62bc99a4..f820ae13 100644
--- a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
+++ b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
@@ -1309,7 +1309,8 @@ class QemuVM(BaseNode):
 
         if self._console:
             return ["-spice",
-                    "addr={},port={},disable-ticketing".format(self._manager.port_manager.console_host, self._console)]
+                    "addr={},port={},disable-ticketing".format(self._manager.port_manager.console_host, self._console),
+                    "-vga", "qxl"]
         else:
             return []
 
diff --git a/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py b/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py
index a7032439..d9c190e0 100644
--- a/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py
+++ b/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ def test_spice_option(vm, tmpdir, loop, fake_qemu_img_binary):
     vm._console = 5905
     options = loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.async(vm._build_command()))
     assert '-spice addr=127.0.0.1,port=5905,disable-ticketing' in ' '.join(options)
+    assert '-vga qxl' in ' '.join(options)
 
 
 def test_disk_options_multiple_disk(vm, tmpdir, loop, fake_qemu_img_binary):