diff --git a/virt-manager.changes b/virt-manager.changes
index 2ee67fc1..013132c3 100644
--- a/virt-manager.changes
+++ b/virt-manager.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Oct 25 02:34:44 UTC 2020 - Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
+
+- boo#1178141 - Accomodate qemu modularization with respect to
+  spice and spice related optional modules. If full spice support
+  is not detected due to missing qemu modules (v5.1 qemu and newer),
+  use vnc as the default install-time graphics type used
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 23 13:25:38 MDT 2020 - carnold@suse.com
 
diff --git a/virt-manager.spec b/virt-manager.spec
index ab88c025..a69eae42 100644
--- a/virt-manager.spec
+++ b/virt-manager.spec
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Patch126:       virtinst-add-caasp-support.patch
 Patch127:       virtinst-add-sle15-detection-support.patch
 Patch128:       virtinst-add-pvh-support.patch
 Patch129:       virtinst-media-detection.patch
+Patch130:       virtinst-graphics-add-check-for-qemu-modules-in-spice-graphic.patch
 # Bug Fixes
 Patch151:       virtman-increase-setKeepAlive-count.patch
 Patch152:       virtman-allow-destroy-from-shutdown-menu-of-crashed-vm.patch
@@ -175,6 +176,7 @@ machine).
 %patch127 -p1
 %patch128 -p1
 %patch129 -p1
+%patch130 -p1
 # Bug Fixes
 %patch151 -p1
 %patch152 -p1
diff --git a/virtinst-graphics-add-check-for-qemu-modules-in-spice-graphic.patch b/virtinst-graphics-add-check-for-qemu-modules-in-spice-graphic.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3d43c429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/virtinst-graphics-add-check-for-qemu-modules-in-spice-graphic.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+From 2919f40ac931dce5dedf326f84e83e8c04e1fabe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
+Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 08:10:29 -0600
+Subject: [PATCH] graphics: add check for qemu modules in spice graphics
+ detection
+
+For SLE and openSUSE qemu, starting with v5.1, spice and spice related
+qemu modules have been split away from the main system emulator and
+are packaged as Recommends, meaning that they may not be present.
+Up to now virt-manager has assumed spice is available for x86 qemu, but
+that is no longer the case. Unfortunately the standard libvirt feature
+detection can't yet help us out here, so we leapfrog libvirt by doing
+our own detection of whether the qemu modules needed to support the
+default guest install using spice, usb redirection, and qxl video are
+present.
+
+Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
+---
+ virtinst/devices/graphics.py | 9 +++++++++
+ virtinst/support.py          | 1 +
+ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/virtinst/devices/graphics.py b/virtinst/devices/graphics.py
+index a514b455..f5083e68 100644
+--- a/virtinst/devices/graphics.py
++++ b/virtinst/devices/graphics.py
+@@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ class DeviceGraphics(Device):
+         # Spice has issues on some host arches, like ppc, so allow it
+         if self.conn.caps.host.cpu.arch not in ["i686", "x86_64"]:
+             return False
++        if self.conn.support.conn_spice_modular():
++            if self.conn.caps.host.cpu.arch in ["x86_64"]:
++                if not (os.path.exists("/usr/lib64/qemu/hw-usb-redirect.so") and
++                    os.path.exists("/usr/lib64/qemu/hw-display-qxl.so")):
++                        return False
++            else:
++                if not (os.path.exists("/usr/lib/qemu/hw-usb-redirect.so") and
++                    os.path.exists("/usr/lib/qemu/hw-display-qxl.so")):
++                        return False
+         return True
+ 
+     def _listen_need_port(self):
+diff --git a/virtinst/support.py b/virtinst/support.py
+index de73629e..29dad32b 100644
+--- a/virtinst/support.py
++++ b/virtinst/support.py
+@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ class SupportCache:
+     conn_disk_driver_name_qemu = _make(
+         hv_version={"qemu": 0, "xen": "4.2.0"},
+         hv_libvirt_version={"qemu": 0, "xen": "1.1.0"})
++    conn_spice_modular = _make(hv_version={"qemu": "5.1.0", "test": 0})
+ 
+     # Domain checks
+     domain_xml_inactive = _make(function="virDomain.XMLDesc", run_args=(),
+-- 
+2.29.0
+