Does the problem still persist with the latest version of QEMU? Did you maybe try to report it to the Spice project (https://www.spice- space.org/support.html)?
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779650 Title: The display stays black after waking up a domain via SPICE with a QXL card Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: As the title says, in a jessie VM, waking up a VM via the spice remote view works with a VGA graphic card. With a QXL card though, the domain wakes up but the display stays black (the keyboard is working though). Qemu: Master, 281bd281222776229d5dbf84d1a5c6d8d9d2a34b To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1779650/+subscriptions