diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index e566c5bc2127f8ebb3a91bfdb48daedfa6b55151..19c27d1e1a65f3608f34e1cfc8d5ac114548da9e 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -5207,6 +5207,10 @@ qemuBuildHostdevMediatedDevStr(const virDomainDef *def,
     virBufferAdd(&buf, dev_str, -1);
     virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",id=%s,sysfsdev=%s", dev->info->alias, mdevPath);
 
+    if (mdevsrc->display != VIR_TRISTATE_SWITCH_ABSENT)
+        virBufferAsprintf(&buf, ",display=%s",
+                          virTristateSwitchTypeToString(mdevsrc->display));
+
     if (qemuBuildDeviceAddressStr(&buf, def, dev->info, qemuCaps) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-missing-graphics.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-missing-graphics.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea559a64440cf6588033560da9224daa1e43d710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-missing-graphics.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest2</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-system-i686</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci' display='on'>
+      <source>
+        <address uuid='53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc'/>
+      </source>
+    </hostdev>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless.x86_64-latest.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless.x86_64-latest.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ac90c81d2d6a2c3d7abc3b358f6a7906d53ed95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless.x86_64-latest.args
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice \
+/usr/bin/qemu-system-i686 \
+-name guest=QEMUGuest2,debug-threads=on \
+-S \
+-object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,\
+file=/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest2/master-key.aes \
+-machine pc,accel=tcg,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off \
+-m 214 \
+-realtime mlock=off \
+-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-no-user-config \
+-nodefaults \
+-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=1729,server,nowait \
+-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
+-rtc base=utc \
+-no-shutdown \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot strict=on \
+-device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \
+-spice port=0,seamless-migration=on \
+-display egl-headless \
+-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,\
+vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
+-device vfio-pci,id=hostdev0,\
+sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc,display=on,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
+-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,\
+resourcecontrol=deny \
+-msg timestamp=on
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c8f10c2f3ae411837ee36b25d2d6c3216cecd41f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<domain type='qemu' id='1'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest2</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-system-i686</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <graphics type='spice'/>
+    <graphics type='egl-headless'/>
+    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci' display='on'>
+      <source>
+        <address uuid='53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc'/>
+      </source>
+    </hostdev>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' heads='1'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl.x86_64-latest.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl.x86_64-latest.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1fd9fdaa16783c3f1dc25c91fba9875e10f6cda6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl.x86_64-latest.args
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice \
+/usr/bin/qemu-system-i686 \
+-name guest=QEMUGuest2,debug-threads=on \
+-S \
+-object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,\
+file=/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest2/master-key.aes \
+-machine pc,accel=tcg,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off \
+-m 214 \
+-realtime mlock=off \
+-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-no-user-config \
+-nodefaults \
+-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=1729,server,nowait \
+-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
+-rtc base=utc \
+-no-shutdown \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot strict=on \
+-device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \
+-spice port=0,gl=on,rendernode=/dev/dri/foo,seamless-migration=on \
+-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,\
+vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
+-device vfio-pci,id=hostdev0,\
+sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc,display=on,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
+-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,\
+resourcecontrol=deny \
+-msg timestamp=on
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18c9817608e4c4ecdbc193e3aa8c2e0e1a8a218e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<domain type='qemu' id='1'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest2</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-system-i686</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <graphics type='spice'>
+      <gl enable='yes' rendernode='/dev/dri/foo'/>
+    </graphics>
+    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci' display='on'>
+      <source>
+        <address uuid='53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc'/>
+      </source>
+    </hostdev>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' heads='1'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless.x86_64-latest.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless.x86_64-latest.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cdf545d0e0edaaddf0a5d097918b33ca4eec893e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless.x86_64-latest.args
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/qemu-system-i686 \
+-name guest=QEMUGuest2,debug-threads=on \
+-S \
+-object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,\
+file=/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest2/master-key.aes \
+-machine pc,accel=tcg,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off \
+-m 214 \
+-realtime mlock=off \
+-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-no-user-config \
+-nodefaults \
+-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=1729,server,nowait \
+-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
+-rtc base=utc \
+-no-shutdown \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot strict=on \
+-device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \
+-vnc 127.0.0.1:0 \
+-display egl-headless \
+-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,\
+vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
+-device vfio-pci,id=hostdev0,\
+sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc,display=on,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
+-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,\
+resourcecontrol=deny \
+-msg timestamp=on
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b3eaeeef1308b9ffdfe4fef3f03821acb859658d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<domain type='qemu' id='1'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest2</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-system-i686</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <graphics type='vnc'/>
+    <graphics type='egl-headless'/>
+    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci' display='on'>
+      <source>
+        <address uuid='53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc'/>
+      </source>
+    </hostdev>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' heads='1'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc.x86_64-latest.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc.x86_64-latest.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..19439afda9c63df4866763f4d71e74f944968abd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc.x86_64-latest.args
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/qemu-system-i686 \
+-name guest=QEMUGuest2,debug-threads=on \
+-S \
+-object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,\
+file=/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest2/master-key.aes \
+-machine pc,accel=tcg,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off \
+-m 214 \
+-realtime mlock=off \
+-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-no-user-config \
+-nodefaults \
+-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=1729,server,nowait \
+-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
+-rtc base=utc \
+-no-shutdown \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot strict=on \
+-device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \
+-vnc 127.0.0.1:0 \
+-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,\
+vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
+-device vfio-pci,id=hostdev0,\
+sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc,display=on,\
+bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
+-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,\
+resourcecontrol=deny \
+-msg timestamp=on
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5b3575c04a66a82c678702eacaa78029d35d2d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-mdev-display-vnc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<domain type='qemu' id='1'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest2</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-system-i686</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest2'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
+    </controller>
+    <graphics type='vnc'/>
+    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci' display='on'>
+      <source>
+        <address uuid='53764d0e-85a0-42b4-af5c-2046b460b1dc'/>
+      </source>
+    </hostdev>
+    <video>
+      <model type='qxl' heads='1'/>
+    </video>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index b31c0e4a96263317e81d2e738a9e22f6fa4567f3..ead4c421067fc206282cda72d197f553940385be 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1592,6 +1592,13 @@ mymain(void)
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VFIO_PCI);
     DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR("hostdev-mdev-invalid-target-address",
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VFIO_PCI);
+    DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("hostdev-mdev-display-spice-opengl");
+    DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("hostdev-mdev-display-spice-egl-headless");
+    DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("hostdev-mdev-display-vnc");
+    DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("hostdev-mdev-display-vnc-egl-headless");
+    DO_TEST_PARSE_ERROR("hostdev-mdev-display-missing-graphics",
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VFIO_PCI,
+            QEMU_CAPS_VFIO_PCI_DISPLAY);
     DO_TEST("pci-rom", NONE);
     DO_TEST("pci-rom-disabled", NONE);
     DO_TEST("pci-rom-disabled-invalid", NONE);