diff --git a/virtinst/osdict.py b/virtinst/osdict.py
index 00787a81a..27cf875e4 100644
--- a/virtinst/osdict.py
+++ b/virtinst/osdict.py
@@ -506,7 +506,14 @@ class _OsVariant(object):
         # issues with ubuntu + qxl for as late as 14.04, so carry the vmvga
         # default forward until someone says otherwise. In 2014-09 I contacted
         # Marc offlist and he said this was fine for now.
-        if self._os and self._os.get_distro() == "ubuntu":
+        #
+        # But in my testing ubuntu-15.04 works _better_ with qxl (installer
+        # resolution is huge with vmvga but reasonable with qxl), and given
+        # that the qemu vmvga code is not supposed to be of high quality,
+        # let's use qxl for newer ubuntu
+        if (self._os and
+            self._os.get_distro() == "ubuntu" and
+            not self._is_related_to("ubuntu15.04")):
             return "vmvga"
 
         if guest.has_spice() and guest.os.is_x86():