diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index 62833c01..fc1f9cc8 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ EODESCR
 	optional => 1,
 	type => 'boolean',
 	default => 1,
-	description => "Enable/disable the usb tablet device. This device is usually needed to allow absolute mouse positioning. Else the mouse runs out of sync with normal vnc clients. If you're running lots of console-only guests on one host, you may consider disabling this to save some context switches.",
+	description => "Enable/disable the usb tablet device. This device is usually needed to allow absolute mouse positioning with VNC. Else the mouse runs out of sync with normal VNC clients. If you're running lots of console-only guests on one host, you may consider disabling this to save some context switches. This is turned of by default if you use spice (vga=qxl).",
     },
     migrate_speed => {
 	optional => 1,
@@ -2282,8 +2282,26 @@ sub config_to_command {
     # include usb device config
     push @$devices, '-readconfig', '/usr/share/qemu-server/pve-usb.cfg' if $use_usb2;
 
+    my $vga = $conf->{vga};
+    if (!$vga) {
+	if ($conf->{ostype} && ($conf->{ostype} eq 'win8' || 
+				$conf->{ostype} eq 'win7' || 
+				$conf->{ostype} eq 'w2k8')) {
+	    $vga = 'std';
+	} else {
+	    $vga = 'cirrus';
+	}
+    }
+
     # enable absolute mouse coordinates (needed by vnc)
-    my $tablet = defined($conf->{tablet}) ? $conf->{tablet} : $defaults->{tablet};
+    my $tablet;
+    if (defined($conf->{tablet})) {
+	$tablet = $conf->{tablet};
+    } else {
+	$tablet = $defaults->{tablet};
+	$tablet = 0 if $vga eq 'qxl'; # disable for spice because it is not needed
+    }
+
     push @$devices, '-device', 'usb-tablet,id=tablet,bus=uhci.0,port=1' if $tablet;
 
     # host pci devices
@@ -2355,15 +2373,6 @@ sub config_to_command {
 
     push @$cmd, '-no-reboot' if  defined($conf->{reboot}) && $conf->{reboot} == 0;
 
-    my $vga = $conf->{vga};
-    if (!$vga) {
-	if ($conf->{ostype} && ($conf->{ostype} eq 'win8' || $conf->{ostype} eq 'win7' || $conf->{ostype} eq 'w2k8')) {
-	    $vga = 'std';
-	} else {
-	    $vga = 'cirrus';
-	}
-    }
-
     push @$cmd, '-vga', $vga if $vga; # for kvm 77 and later
 
     # time drift fix
diff --git a/changelog.Debian b/changelog.Debian
index 22404e23..a3a30314 100644
--- a/changelog.Debian
+++ b/changelog.Debian
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 qemu-server (3.0-25) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * support usb redirection devices for spice (usb[n]: spice)
+  
+  * disable tablet device by default for spice
 
  -- Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>  Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:38:25 +0200