---
 ui/spice-app.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ui/spice-app.c b/ui/spice-app.c
index 4f5229f3ee..925b27b708 100644
--- a/ui/spice-app.c
+++ b/ui/spice-app.c
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ static void spice_app_display_init(DisplayState *ds, DisplayOptions *opts)
     g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri(uri, NULL, &err);
     if (err) {
         error_report("Failed to launch %s URI: %s", uri, err->message);
+        error_report("You need a capable Spice client, "
+                     "such as virt-viewer 8.0");
         exit(1);
     }
     g_free(uri);
-- 
2.21.0.rc1