diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
index cd24eac13..26ef07969 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ sub reconfigvm {
 sub build_oshash {
     my %rethash;
     $rethash{type}->{content}='hvm';
+    $rethash{bios}->{useserial}='yes';
     if (defined $confdata->{vm}->{$node}->[0]->{bootorder}) {
         my $bootorder = $confdata->{vm}->{$node}->[0]->{bootorder};
         my @bootdevs = split(/[:,]/,$bootorder);
@@ -694,7 +695,11 @@ sub build_xmldesc {
     if (defined ($confdata->{vm}->{$node}->[0]->{vidmodel})) {
       my $model = $confdata->{vm}->{$node}->[0]->{vidmodel};
       my $vram = '8192';
-      if ($model eq 'qxl') { $vram = 65536; } #surprise, spice blows up with less vram than this after version 0.6 and up
+      if ($model eq 'qxl') { 
+        $xtree{devices}->{channel}->{type}='spicevmc';
+        $xtree{devices}->{channel}->{target}->{type}='virtio';
+        $xtree{devices}->{channel}->{target}->{name}='com.redhat.spice.0';
+        $vram = 65536; } #surprise, spice blows up with less vram than this after version 0.6 and up
       $xtree{devices}->{video}= [ { 'content'=>'','model'=> {type=>$model,vram=>$vram}}];
     } else {
       $xtree{devices}->{video}= [ { 'content'=>'','model'=> {type=>'vga',vram=>8192}}];