diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2d5253680c..3f97904a3d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ bepo    cz
 
 ifdef INSTALL_BLOBS
 BLOBS=bios.bin bios-256k.bin sgabios.bin vgabios.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin \
-vgabios-stdvga.bin vgabios-vmware.bin vgabios-qxl.bin \
+vgabios-stdvga.bin vgabios-vmware.bin vgabios-qxl.bin vgabios-virtio.bin \
 acpi-dsdt.aml q35-acpi-dsdt.aml \
 ppc_rom.bin openbios-sparc32 openbios-sparc64 openbios-ppc QEMU,tcx.bin QEMU,cgthree.bin \
 pxe-e1000.rom pxe-eepro100.rom pxe-ne2k_pci.rom \
diff --git a/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak b/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak
index 2f2955bf5d..62575ebcd8 100644
--- a/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak
+++ b/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ CONFIG_QXL=$(CONFIG_SPICE)
 CONFIG_VGA_ISA=y
 CONFIG_VGA_CIRRUS=y
 CONFIG_VMWARE_VGA=y
+CONFIG_VIRTIO_VGA=y
 CONFIG_VMMOUSE=y
 CONFIG_SERIAL=y
 CONFIG_PARALLEL=y
diff --git a/hw/display/Makefile.objs b/hw/display/Makefile.objs
index 61c80f319d..dd8ea76d17 100644
--- a/hw/display/Makefile.objs
+++ b/hw/display/Makefile.objs
@@ -36,3 +36,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VGA) += vga.o
 common-obj-$(CONFIG_QXL) += qxl.o qxl-logger.o qxl-render.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO) += virtio-gpu.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI) += virtio-gpu-pci.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_VGA) += virtio-vga.o
diff --git a/hw/display/vga-pci.c b/hw/display/vga-pci.c
index 0ed44c7831..1dfa331e60 100644
--- a/hw/display/vga-pci.c
+++ b/hw/display/vga-pci.c
@@ -204,10 +204,10 @@ static const MemoryRegionOps pci_vga_qext_ops = {
     .endianness = DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN,
 };
 
-static void pci_std_vga_mmio_region_init(VGACommonState *s,
-                                         MemoryRegion *parent,
-                                         MemoryRegion *subs,
-                                         bool qext)
+void pci_std_vga_mmio_region_init(VGACommonState *s,
+                                  MemoryRegion *parent,
+                                  MemoryRegion *subs,
+                                  bool qext)
 {
     memory_region_init_io(&subs[0], NULL, &pci_vga_ioport_ops, s,
                           "vga ioports remapped", PCI_VGA_IOPORT_SIZE);
diff --git a/hw/display/vga_int.h b/hw/display/vga_int.h
index fcfcc5f431..40ba6a4207 100644
--- a/hw/display/vga_int.h
+++ b/hw/display/vga_int.h
@@ -219,4 +219,10 @@ extern const uint8_t gr_mask[16];
 
 extern const MemoryRegionOps vga_mem_ops;
 
+/* vga-pci.c */
+void pci_std_vga_mmio_region_init(VGACommonState *s,
+                                  MemoryRegion *parent,
+                                  MemoryRegion *subs,
+                                  bool qext);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/hw/display/virtio-gpu-pci.c b/hw/display/virtio-gpu-pci.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f0f25c7bc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/display/virtio-gpu-pci.c
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Virtio video device
+ *
+ * Copyright Red Hat
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Dave Airlie
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
+ * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+#include "hw/pci/pci.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h"
+
+static Property virtio_gpu_pci_properties[] = {
+    DEFINE_VIRTIO_GPU_PROPERTIES(VirtIOGPUPCI, vdev.conf),
+    DEFINE_VIRTIO_GPU_PCI_PROPERTIES(VirtIOPCIProxy),
+    DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
+};
+
+static void virtio_gpu_pci_realize(VirtIOPCIProxy *vpci_dev, Error **errp)
+{
+    VirtIOGPUPCI *vgpu = VIRTIO_GPU_PCI(vpci_dev);
+    DeviceState *vdev = DEVICE(&vgpu->vdev);
+
+    qdev_set_parent_bus(vdev, BUS(&vpci_dev->bus));
+    /* force virtio-1.0 */
+    vpci_dev->flags &= ~VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_DISABLE_MODERN;
+    vpci_dev->flags |= VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_DISABLE_LEGACY;
+    object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(vdev), true, "realized", errp);
+}
+
+static void virtio_gpu_pci_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
+{
+    DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
+    VirtioPCIClass *k = VIRTIO_PCI_CLASS(klass);
+    PCIDeviceClass *pcidev_k = PCI_DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
+
+    set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_DISPLAY, dc->categories);
+    dc->props = virtio_gpu_pci_properties;
+    k->realize = virtio_gpu_pci_realize;
+    pcidev_k->class_id = PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_OTHER;
+}
+
+static void virtio_gpu_initfn(Object *obj)
+{
+    VirtIOGPUPCI *dev = VIRTIO_GPU_PCI(obj);
+    object_initialize(&dev->vdev, sizeof(dev->vdev), TYPE_VIRTIO_GPU);
+    object_property_add_child(obj, "virtio-backend", OBJECT(&dev->vdev), NULL);
+}
+
+static const TypeInfo virtio_gpu_pci_info = {
+    .name = TYPE_VIRTIO_GPU_PCI,
+    .parent = TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI,
+    .instance_size = sizeof(VirtIOGPUPCI),
+    .instance_init = virtio_gpu_initfn,
+    .class_init = virtio_gpu_pci_class_init,
+};
+
+static void virtio_gpu_pci_register_types(void)
+{
+    type_register_static(&virtio_gpu_pci_info);
+}
+type_init(virtio_gpu_pci_register_types)
diff --git a/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c b/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c
index 4b10ca1ebb..8c109b79f4 100644
--- a/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c
+++ b/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ int virtio_gpu_create_mapping_iov(struct virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing *ab,
 
     if (ab->nr_entries > 16384) {
         qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
-                      "%s: nr_entries is too big (%d > 1024)\n",
+                      "%s: nr_entries is too big (%d > 16384)\n",
                       __func__, ab->nr_entries);
         return -1;
     }
diff --git a/hw/display/virtio-vga.c b/hw/display/virtio-vga.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94f9d0eb5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/display/virtio-vga.c
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+#include "hw/hw.h"
+#include "hw/pci/pci.h"
+#include "ui/console.h"
+#include "vga_int.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h"
+
+/*
+ * virtio-vga: This extends VirtioPCIProxy.
+ */
+#define TYPE_VIRTIO_VGA "virtio-vga"
+#define VIRTIO_VGA(obj) \
+        OBJECT_CHECK(VirtIOVGA, (obj), TYPE_VIRTIO_VGA)
+
+typedef struct VirtIOVGA {
+    VirtIOPCIProxy parent_obj;
+    VirtIOGPU      vdev;
+    VGACommonState vga;
+    MemoryRegion   vga_mrs[3];
+} VirtIOVGA;
+
+static void virtio_vga_invalidate_display(void *opaque)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *vvga = opaque;
+
+    if (vvga->vdev.enable) {
+        virtio_gpu_ops.invalidate(&vvga->vdev);
+    } else {
+        vvga->vga.hw_ops->invalidate(&vvga->vga);
+    }
+}
+
+static void virtio_vga_update_display(void *opaque)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *vvga = opaque;
+
+    if (vvga->vdev.enable) {
+        virtio_gpu_ops.gfx_update(&vvga->vdev);
+    } else {
+        vvga->vga.hw_ops->gfx_update(&vvga->vga);
+    }
+}
+
+static void virtio_vga_text_update(void *opaque, console_ch_t *chardata)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *vvga = opaque;
+
+    if (vvga->vdev.enable) {
+        if (virtio_gpu_ops.text_update) {
+            virtio_gpu_ops.text_update(&vvga->vdev, chardata);
+        }
+    } else {
+        if (vvga->vga.hw_ops->text_update) {
+            vvga->vga.hw_ops->text_update(&vvga->vga, chardata);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+static int virtio_vga_ui_info(void *opaque, uint32_t idx, QemuUIInfo *info)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *vvga = opaque;
+
+    if (virtio_gpu_ops.ui_info) {
+        return virtio_gpu_ops.ui_info(&vvga->vdev, idx, info);
+    }
+    return -1;
+}
+
+static const GraphicHwOps virtio_vga_ops = {
+    .invalidate = virtio_vga_invalidate_display,
+    .gfx_update = virtio_vga_update_display,
+    .text_update = virtio_vga_text_update,
+    .ui_info = virtio_vga_ui_info,
+};
+
+/* VGA device wrapper around PCI device around virtio GPU */
+static void virtio_vga_realize(VirtIOPCIProxy *vpci_dev, Error **errp)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *vvga = VIRTIO_VGA(vpci_dev);
+    VirtIOGPU *g = &vvga->vdev;
+    VGACommonState *vga = &vvga->vga;
+    uint32_t offset;
+
+    /* init vga compat bits */
+    vga->vram_size_mb = 8;
+    vga_common_init(vga, OBJECT(vpci_dev), false);
+    vga_init(vga, OBJECT(vpci_dev), pci_address_space(&vpci_dev->pci_dev),
+             pci_address_space_io(&vpci_dev->pci_dev), true);
+    pci_register_bar(&vpci_dev->pci_dev, 0,
+                     PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_PREFETCH, &vga->vram);
+
+    /*
+     * Configure virtio bar and regions
+     *
+     * We use bar #2 for the mmio regions, to be compatible with stdvga.
+     * virtio regions are moved to the end of bar #2, to make room for
+     * the stdvga mmio registers at the start of bar #2.
+     */
+    vpci_dev->modern_mem_bar = 2;
+    vpci_dev->msix_bar = 4;
+    offset = memory_region_size(&vpci_dev->modern_bar);
+    offset -= vpci_dev->notify.size;
+    vpci_dev->notify.offset = offset;
+    offset -= vpci_dev->device.size;
+    vpci_dev->device.offset = offset;
+    offset -= vpci_dev->isr.size;
+    vpci_dev->isr.offset = offset;
+    offset -= vpci_dev->common.size;
+    vpci_dev->common.offset = offset;
+
+    /* init virtio bits */
+    qdev_set_parent_bus(DEVICE(g), BUS(&vpci_dev->bus));
+    /* force virtio-1.0 */
+    vpci_dev->flags &= ~VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_DISABLE_MODERN;
+    vpci_dev->flags |= VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_DISABLE_LEGACY;
+    object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(g), true, "realized", errp);
+
+    /* add stdvga mmio regions */
+    pci_std_vga_mmio_region_init(vga, &vpci_dev->modern_bar,
+                                 vvga->vga_mrs, true);
+
+    vga->con = g->scanout[0].con;
+    graphic_console_set_hwops(vga->con, &virtio_vga_ops, vvga);
+}
+
+static void virtio_vga_reset(DeviceState *dev)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *vvga = VIRTIO_VGA(dev);
+    vvga->vdev.enable = 0;
+
+    vga_dirty_log_start(&vvga->vga);
+}
+
+static Property virtio_vga_properties[] = {
+    DEFINE_VIRTIO_GPU_PROPERTIES(VirtIOVGA, vdev.conf),
+    DEFINE_VIRTIO_GPU_PCI_PROPERTIES(VirtIOPCIProxy),
+    DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
+};
+
+static void virtio_vga_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
+{
+    DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
+    VirtioPCIClass *k = VIRTIO_PCI_CLASS(klass);
+    PCIDeviceClass *pcidev_k = PCI_DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
+
+    set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_DISPLAY, dc->categories);
+    dc->props = virtio_vga_properties;
+    dc->reset = virtio_vga_reset;
+    dc->hotpluggable = false;
+
+    k->realize = virtio_vga_realize;
+    pcidev_k->romfile = "vgabios-virtio.bin";
+    pcidev_k->class_id = PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA;
+}
+
+static void virtio_vga_inst_initfn(Object *obj)
+{
+    VirtIOVGA *dev = VIRTIO_VGA(obj);
+    object_initialize(&dev->vdev, sizeof(dev->vdev), TYPE_VIRTIO_GPU);
+    object_property_add_child(obj, "virtio-backend", OBJECT(&dev->vdev), NULL);
+}
+
+static TypeInfo virtio_vga_info = {
+    .name          = TYPE_VIRTIO_VGA,
+    .parent        = TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI,
+    .instance_size = sizeof(struct VirtIOVGA),
+    .instance_init = virtio_vga_inst_initfn,
+    .class_init    = virtio_vga_class_init,
+};
+
+static void virtio_vga_register_types(void)
+{
+    type_register_static(&virtio_vga_info);
+}
+
+type_init(virtio_vga_register_types)
diff --git a/hw/isa/isa-bus.c b/hw/isa/isa-bus.c
index ec8e7decfc..43e0cd8ddd 100644
--- a/hw/isa/isa-bus.c
+++ b/hw/isa/isa-bus.c
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ ISADevice *isa_vga_init(ISABus *bus)
     case VGA_VMWARE:
         fprintf(stderr, "%s: vmware_vga: no PCI bus\n", __func__);
         return NULL;
+    case VGA_VIRTIO:
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: virtio-vga: no PCI bus\n", __func__);
+        return NULL;
     case VGA_NONE:
     default:
         return NULL;
diff --git a/hw/pci/pci.c b/hw/pci/pci.c
index 750f3dacea..21580433d4 100644
--- a/hw/pci/pci.c
+++ b/hw/pci/pci.c
@@ -1698,6 +1698,8 @@ PCIDevice *pci_vga_init(PCIBus *bus)
         return pci_create_simple(bus, -1, "VGA");
     case VGA_VMWARE:
         return pci_create_simple(bus, -1, "vmware-svga");
+    case VGA_VIRTIO:
+        return pci_create_simple(bus, -1, "virtio-vga");
     case VGA_NONE:
     default: /* Other non-PCI types. Checking for unsupported types is already
                 done in vl.c. */
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h b/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h
index d962125351..96025ca205 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h"
 #include "hw/virtio/virtio-9p.h"
 #include "hw/virtio/virtio-input.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h"
 #ifdef CONFIG_VIRTFS
 #include "hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.h"
 #endif
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ typedef struct VHostSCSIPCI VHostSCSIPCI;
 typedef struct VirtIORngPCI VirtIORngPCI;
 typedef struct VirtIOInputPCI VirtIOInputPCI;
 typedef struct VirtIOInputHIDPCI VirtIOInputHIDPCI;
+typedef struct VirtIOGPUPCI VirtIOGPUPCI;
 
 /* virtio-pci-bus */
 
@@ -261,6 +263,18 @@ struct VirtIOInputHIDPCI {
     VirtIOInputHID vdev;
 };
 
+/*
+ * virtio-gpu-pci: This extends VirtioPCIProxy.
+ */
+#define TYPE_VIRTIO_GPU_PCI "virtio-gpu-pci"
+#define VIRTIO_GPU_PCI(obj) \
+        OBJECT_CHECK(VirtIOGPUPCI, (obj), TYPE_VIRTIO_GPU_PCI)
+
+struct VirtIOGPUPCI {
+    VirtIOPCIProxy parent_obj;
+    VirtIOGPU vdev;
+};
+
 /* Virtio ABI version, if we increment this, we break the guest driver. */
 #define VIRTIO_PCI_ABI_VERSION          0
 
diff --git a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
index ef793f702e..0304aa761e 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ extern int autostart;
 
 typedef enum {
     VGA_NONE, VGA_STD, VGA_CIRRUS, VGA_VMWARE, VGA_XENFB, VGA_QXL,
-    VGA_TCX, VGA_CG3, VGA_DEVICE
+    VGA_TCX, VGA_CG3, VGA_DEVICE, VGA_VIRTIO,
 } VGAInterfaceType;
 
 extern int vga_interface_type;
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index bf1683e5b4..5438f9862c 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ Rotate graphical output some deg left (only PXA LCD).
 ETEXI
 
 DEF("vga", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_vga,
-    "-vga [std|cirrus|vmware|qxl|xenfb|tcx|cg3|none]\n"
+    "-vga [std|cirrus|vmware|qxl|xenfb|tcx|cg3|virtio|none]\n"
     "                select video card type\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 STEXI
 @item -vga @var{type}
@@ -1137,6 +1137,8 @@ fixed resolution of 1024x768.
 (sun4m only) Sun cgthree framebuffer. This is a simple 8-bit framebuffer
 for sun4m machines available in both 1024x768 (OpenBIOS) and 1152x900 (OBP)
 resolutions aimed at people wishing to run older Solaris versions.
+@item virtio
+Virtio VGA card.
 @item none
 Disable VGA card.
 @end table
diff --git a/roms/Makefile b/roms/Makefile
index 610b534628..c76cd5b6d2 100644
--- a/roms/Makefile
+++ b/roms/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-vgabios_variants := stdvga cirrus vmware qxl isavga
+vgabios_variants := stdvga cirrus vmware qxl isavga virtio
 vgabios_targets  := $(subst -isavga,,$(patsubst %,vgabios-%.bin,$(vgabios_variants)))
 pxerom_variants  := e1000 eepro100 ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 virtio
 pxerom_targets   := 8086100e 80861209 10500940 10222000 10ec8139 1af41000
diff --git a/roms/config.vga-virtio b/roms/config.vga-virtio
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aa7a15ba11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roms/config.vga-virtio
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+CONFIG_BUILD_VGABIOS=y
+CONFIG_VGA_BOCHS=y
+CONFIG_VGA_PCI=y
+CONFIG_OVERRIDE_PCI_ID=y
+CONFIG_VGA_VID=0x1af4
+CONFIG_VGA_DID=0x1050
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 9542095d95..2201e27fdc 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ static struct {
     { .driver = "isa-cirrus-vga",       .flag = &default_vga       },
     { .driver = "vmware-svga",          .flag = &default_vga       },
     { .driver = "qxl-vga",              .flag = &default_vga       },
+    { .driver = "virtio-vga",           .flag = &default_vga       },
 };
 
 static QemuOptsList qemu_rtc_opts = {
@@ -1884,6 +1885,11 @@ static bool cg3_vga_available(void)
     return object_class_by_name("cgthree");
 }
 
+static bool virtio_vga_available(void)
+{
+    return object_class_by_name("virtio-vga");
+}
+
 static void select_vgahw (const char *p)
 {
     const char *opts;
@@ -1910,6 +1916,13 @@ static void select_vgahw (const char *p)
             fprintf(stderr, "Error: VMWare SVGA not available\n");
             exit(0);
         }
+    } else if (strstart(p, "virtio", &opts)) {
+        if (virtio_vga_available()) {
+            vga_interface_type = VGA_VIRTIO;
+        } else {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Error: Virtio VGA not available\n");
+            exit(0);
+        }
     } else if (strstart(p, "xenfb", &opts)) {
         vga_interface_type = VGA_XENFB;
     } else if (strstart(p, "qxl", &opts)) {