OpenGL support is disabled $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -display sdl,gl=on -vga qxl SDL1 display code has no opengl support. Please recompile qemu with SDL2, using ./configure --enable-sdl --with-sdlabi=2.0 qemu-system-x86_64: OpenGL support is disabled Can you please recompile qemu with support for opengl. The -display mode allows for opengl support.