Install on a Debian

https://wiki.debian.org/KVM

qemu-kvm is compiled without –enable-spice

From /usr/src/qemu-2.1+dfsg/debian/rules

dd another set of configure options from debian/control common_configure_opts = \
—with-pkgversion="Debian $(DEB_VERSION)" \
—extra-cflags="$(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -DCONFIG_QEMU_DATAPATH='\"${DATAPATH}\"' -DVENDOR_$(VENDOR)" \
—extra-ldflags="$(LDFLAGS) -Wl,--as-needed" \
—prefix=/usr \
—sysconfdir=/etc \
—libexecdir=/usr/lib/qemu \
—localstatedir=/var \
—disable-blobs \
—disable-strip \
—with-system-pixman \
—interp-prefix=/etc/qemu-binfmt/%M \
—localstatedir=/var \

You must compile with spice support.

spice support     yes (0.12.7/0.12.5)