When bringing up a guest with virt-install and not manually specifying a video type, the guest gets cirrus video. This happens even if specifying --os-variant=fedora18. (When using virt-manager and not choosing a particular video type, I get qxl.) It appears that /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/osdict.py specifies cirrus as the default video type for pretty much everything except for the variants of windows. I'm running updates F18: python-virtinst-0.600.3-2.fc18.noarch
Moving this to F19 since it likely won't be fixed for older releases.
virt-install defaults to spice + qxl across the board now, but it'll be a difficult backport to f19, so just pushing to f20. You can manually work around it on f19 by passing --graphics spice, which will give the qxl default as well
virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20
Package virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-18473/virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.