diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 1455c0d5bd2665e7efe35ac4b14d7e44f2e38153..b5d84e6bfb7bdc067f5c8b251985732a8e12b9ea 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -4091,6 +4091,16 @@ qemuBuildDeviceVideoStr(const virDomainDef *def,
             /* QEMU accepts mebibytes for vgamem_mb. */
             virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",vgamem_mb=%u", video->vgamem / 1024);
         }
+
+        if ((video->primary &&
+             virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_QXL_VGA_MAX_OUTPUTS)) ||
+            (!video->primary &&
+             virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_QXL_MAX_OUTPUTS))) {
+            if (video->heads)
+                virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",max_outputs=%u", video->heads);
+        } else {
+            video->heads = 0;
+        }
     } else if (video->vram &&
         ((video->type == VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VGA &&
           virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_VGA_VGAMEM)) ||
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c b/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c
index c5b2963d65b62818a268a8f5b3804b6989ad3e67..bed5f0b581b9b731b98923a0a52695f5d141bdd5 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c
@@ -3131,7 +3131,6 @@ qemuMigrationBeginPhase(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
         if (nmigrate_disks) {
             if (has_drive_mirror) {
                 size_t i, j;
-
                 /* Check user requested only known disk targets. */
                 for (i = 0; i < nmigrate_disks; i++) {
                     for (j = 0; j < vm->def->ndisks; j++) {
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-heads.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-heads.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a939177088f9484fef2f0b5e70c47a5684615c83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-heads.args
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/qemu \
+-name QEMUGuest1 \
+-S \
+-M pc \
+-m 214 \
+-smp 1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-nographic \
+-nodefaults \
+-monitor unix:/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest1/monitor.sock,server,nowait \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot c \
+-usb \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 \
+-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,max_outputs=1,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
+-device qxl,id=video1,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=33554432,max_outputs=3,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 \
+-device qxl,id=video2,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,max_outputs=7,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \
+-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-heads.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-heads.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45d08745e6521a4a6d48d5f44d01eade72f97666
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-heads.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='32768' vgamem='8192' heads='3'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='8192' heads='7'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='8192' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
+    </memballoon>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-noheads.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-noheads.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c609d487e181c52f51c1767292e6bb46d83f3f53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-noheads.args
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/qemu \
+-name QEMUGuest1 \
+-S \
+-M pc \
+-m 214 \
+-smp 1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-nographic \
+-nodefaults \
+-monitor unix:/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest1/monitor.sock,server,nowait \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot c \
+-usb \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 \
+-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,max_outputs=1,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
+-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-noheads.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-noheads.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..de003be537073178880cdb09005f60834697d6f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-qxl-noheads.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='8192'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
+    </memballoon>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index db42b7bd71be55f0686f7650c02664e05dfa932d..b2cde8e542b59ae77614b9d19dd8ba96457acb8a 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1455,6 +1455,20 @@ mymain(void)
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL_VGA, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL,
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIDEO_PRIMARY, QEMU_CAPS_QXL_VGA_VGAMEM,
             QEMU_CAPS_QXL_VGAMEM);
+    DO_TEST("video-qxl-heads",
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIDEO_PRIMARY,
+            QEMU_CAPS_VGA_QXL,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL_VGA,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL,
+            QEMU_CAPS_QXL_MAX_OUTPUTS,
+            QEMU_CAPS_QXL_VGA_MAX_OUTPUTS);
+    DO_TEST("video-qxl-noheads",
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIDEO_PRIMARY,
+            QEMU_CAPS_VGA_QXL,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL_VGA,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL,
+            QEMU_CAPS_QXL_MAX_OUTPUTS,
+            QEMU_CAPS_QXL_VGA_MAX_OUTPUTS);
     DO_TEST("video-virtio-gpu-device",
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIRTIO_GPU,
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIDEO_PRIMARY);
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-qxl-heads.xml b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-qxl-heads.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7b18ab2b2ab68d7c40e4e57a7a1f3eb197f4ace
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-qxl-heads.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='8192' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='32768' vgamem='8192' heads='3'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='8192' heads='7'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
+    </memballoon>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-qxl-noheads.xml b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-qxl-noheads.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee22e30ad0267d7be079d7d4c1726fe5e33630ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-qxl-noheads.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
+    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='8192' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'>
+      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
+    </memballoon>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index e9d1f938360de0ef1cac8d62ac1d819e7e322b04..eca8e7822523abd1d7c80b2a7069678c36f69526 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -817,6 +817,9 @@ mymain(void)
 
     DO_TEST("acpi-table");
 
+    DO_TEST("video-qxl-heads");
+    DO_TEST("video-qxl-noheads");
+
     qemuTestDriverFree(&driver);
 
     return ret == 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;