diff --git a/hmp.c b/hmp.c
index 6d86fe3d1c..aae13c093b 100644
--- a/hmp.c
+++ b/hmp.c
@@ -306,6 +306,49 @@ out:
     qapi_free_VncInfo(info);
 }
 
+void hmp_info_spice(Monitor *mon)
+{
+    SpiceChannelList *chan;
+    SpiceInfo *info;
+
+    info = qmp_query_spice(NULL);
+
+    if (!info->enabled) {
+        monitor_printf(mon, "Server: disabled\n");
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    monitor_printf(mon, "Server:\n");
+    if (info->has_port) {
+        monitor_printf(mon, "     address: %s:%" PRId64 "\n",
+                       info->host, info->port);
+    }
+    if (info->has_tls_port) {
+        monitor_printf(mon, "     address: %s:%" PRId64 " [tls]\n",
+                       info->host, info->tls_port);
+    }
+    monitor_printf(mon, "        auth: %s\n", info->auth);
+    monitor_printf(mon, "    compiled: %s\n", info->compiled_version);
+
+    if (!info->has_channels || info->channels == NULL) {
+        monitor_printf(mon, "Channels: none\n");
+    } else {
+        for (chan = info->channels; chan; chan = chan->next) {
+            monitor_printf(mon, "Channel:\n");
+            monitor_printf(mon, "     address: %s:%s%s\n",
+                           chan->value->host, chan->value->port,
+                           chan->value->tls ? " [tls]" : "");
+            monitor_printf(mon, "     session: %" PRId64 "\n",
+                           chan->value->connection_id);
+            monitor_printf(mon, "     channel: %" PRId64 ":%" PRId64 "\n",
+                           chan->value->channel_type, chan->value->channel_id);
+        }
+    }
+
+out:
+    qapi_free_SpiceInfo(info);
+}
+
 void hmp_quit(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict)
 {
     monitor_suspend(mon);
diff --git a/hmp.h b/hmp.h
index 7713348cfd..09f3a01cee 100644
--- a/hmp.h
+++ b/hmp.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ void hmp_info_cpus(Monitor *mon);
 void hmp_info_block(Monitor *mon);
 void hmp_info_blockstats(Monitor *mon);
 void hmp_info_vnc(Monitor *mon);
+void hmp_info_spice(Monitor *mon);
 void hmp_quit(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
 void hmp_stop(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
 void hmp_system_reset(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index d7c72bbe0d..fc3da382f0 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -2857,8 +2857,7 @@ static const mon_cmd_t info_cmds[] = {
         .args_type  = "",
         .params     = "",
         .help       = "show the spice server status",
-        .user_print = do_info_spice_print,
-        .mhandler.info_new = do_info_spice,
+        .mhandler.info = hmp_info_spice,
     },
 #endif
     {
@@ -2965,16 +2964,6 @@ static const mon_cmd_t qmp_query_cmds[] = {
         .user_print = do_pci_info_print,
         .mhandler.info_new = do_pci_info,
     },
-#if defined(CONFIG_SPICE)
-    {
-        .name       = "spice",
-        .args_type  = "",
-        .params     = "",
-        .help       = "show the spice server status",
-        .user_print = do_info_spice_print,
-        .mhandler.info_new = do_info_spice,
-    },
-#endif
     {
         .name       = "balloon",
         .args_type  = "",
diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
index 23be143a88..087a46305e 100644
--- a/qapi-schema.json
+++ b/qapi-schema.json
@@ -584,6 +584,80 @@
 ##
 { 'command': 'query-vnc', 'returns': 'VncInfo' }
 
+##
+# @SpiceChannel
+#
+# Information about a SPICE client channel.
+#
+# @host: The host name of the client.  QEMU tries to resolve this to a DNS name
+#        when possible.
+#
+# @family: 'ipv6' if the client is connected via IPv6 and TCP
+#          'ipv4' if the client is connected via IPv4 and TCP
+#          'unix' if the client is connected via a unix domain socket
+#          'unknown' otherwise
+#
+# @port: The client's port number.
+#
+# @connection-id: SPICE connection id number.  All channels with the same id
+#                 belong to the same SPICE session.
+#
+# @connection-type: SPICE channel type number.  "1" is the main control channel,
+#                   filter for this one if you want track spice sessions only
+#
+# @channel-id: SPICE channel ID number.  Usually "0", might be different needed
+#              when multiple channels of the same type exist, such as multiple
+#              display channels in a multihead setup
+#
+# @tls: true if the channel is encrypted, false otherwise.
+#
+# Since: 0.14.0
+##
+{ 'type': 'SpiceChannel',
+  'data': {'host': 'str', 'family': 'str', 'port': 'str',
+           'connection-id': 'int', 'channel-type': 'int', 'channel-id': 'int',
+           'tls': 'bool'} }
+
+##
+# @SpiceInfo
+#
+# Information about the SPICE session.
+# 
+# @enabled: true if the SPICE server is enabled, false otherwise
+#
+# @host: #optional The hostname the SPICE server is bound to.  This depends on
+#        the name resolution on the host and may be an IP address.
+#
+# @port: #optional The SPICE server's port number.
+#
+# @compiled-version: #optional SPICE server version.
+#
+# @tls-port: #optional The SPICE server's TLS port number.
+#
+# @auth: #optional the current authentication type used by the server
+#        'none' if no authentication is being used
+#        'spice' (TODO: describe)
+#
+# @channels: a list of @SpiceChannel for each active spice channel
+#
+# Since: 0.14.0
+##
+{ 'type': 'SpiceInfo',
+  'data': {'enabled': 'bool', '*host': 'str', '*port': 'int',
+           '*tls-port': 'int', '*auth': 'str', '*compiled-version': 'str',
+           '*channels': ['SpiceChannel']} }
+
+##
+# @query-spice
+#
+# Returns information about the current SPICE server
+#
+# Returns: @SpiceInfo
+#
+# Since: 0.14.0
+##
+{ 'command': 'query-spice', 'returns': 'SpiceInfo' }
+
 ##
 # @quit:
 #
diff --git a/qmp-commands.hx b/qmp-commands.hx
index 0953d3f6be..e99c240f1a 100644
--- a/qmp-commands.hx
+++ b/qmp-commands.hx
@@ -1817,6 +1817,14 @@ Example:
 
 EQMP
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_SPICE)
+    {
+        .name       = "query-spice",
+        .args_type  = "",
+        .mhandler.cmd_new = qmp_marshal_input_query_spice,
+    },
+#endif
+
 SQMP
 query-name
 ----------
diff --git a/qmp.c b/qmp.c
index 3a58cfe35f..511dd624b5 100644
--- a/qmp.c
+++ b/qmp.c
@@ -105,3 +105,15 @@ VncInfo *qmp_query_vnc(Error **errp)
     return NULL;
 };
 #endif
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_SPICE
+/* If SPICE support is enabled, the "true" query-spice command is
+   defined in the SPICE subsystem. Also note that we use a small
+   trick to maintain query-spice's original behavior, which is not
+   to be available in the namespace if SPICE is not compiled in */
+SpiceInfo *qmp_query_spice(Error **errp)
+{
+    error_set(errp, QERR_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND, "query-spice");
+    return NULL;
+};
+#endif
diff --git a/ui/spice-core.c b/ui/spice-core.c
index b33366e5d7..f556849ef9 100644
--- a/ui/spice-core.c
+++ b/ui/spice-core.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "qemu-queue.h"
 #include "qemu-x509.h"
 #include "qemu_socket.h"
+#include "qmp-commands.h"
 #include "qint.h"
 #include "qbool.h"
 #include "qstring.h"
@@ -194,22 +195,6 @@ static void add_channel_info(QDict *dict, SpiceChannelEventInfo *info)
     qdict_put(dict, "tls", qbool_from_int(tls));
 }
 
-static QList *channel_list_get(void)
-{
-    ChannelList *item;
-    QList *list;
-    QDict *dict;
-
-    list = qlist_new();
-    QTAILQ_FOREACH(item, &channel_list, link) {
-        dict = qdict_new();
-        add_addr_info(dict, &item->info->paddr, item->info->plen);
-        add_channel_info(dict, item->info);
-        qlist_append(list, dict);
-    }
-    return list;
-}
-
 static void channel_event(int event, SpiceChannelEventInfo *info)
 {
     static const int qevent[] = {
@@ -351,98 +336,90 @@ static const char *wan_compression_names[] = {
 
 /* functions for the rest of qemu */
 
-static void info_spice_iter(QObject *obj, void *opaque)
+static SpiceChannelList *qmp_query_spice_channels(void)
 {
-    QDict *client;
-    Monitor *mon = opaque;
+    SpiceChannelList *cur_item = NULL, *head = NULL;
+    ChannelList *item;
 
-    client = qobject_to_qdict(obj);
-    monitor_printf(mon, "Channel:\n");
-    monitor_printf(mon, "     address: %s:%s%s\n",
-                   qdict_get_str(client, "host"),
-                   qdict_get_str(client, "port"),
-                   qdict_get_bool(client, "tls") ? " [tls]" : "");
-    monitor_printf(mon, "     session: %" PRId64 "\n",
-                   qdict_get_int(client, "connection-id"));
-    monitor_printf(mon, "     channel: %d:%d\n",
-                   (int)qdict_get_int(client, "channel-type"),
-                   (int)qdict_get_int(client, "channel-id"));
+    QTAILQ_FOREACH(item, &channel_list, link) {
+        SpiceChannelList *chan;
+        char host[NI_MAXHOST], port[NI_MAXSERV];
+
+        chan = g_malloc0(sizeof(*chan));
+        chan->value = g_malloc0(sizeof(*chan->value));
+
+        getnameinfo(&item->info->paddr, item->info->plen,
+                    host, sizeof(host), port, sizeof(port),
+                    NI_NUMERICHOST | NI_NUMERICSERV);
+        chan->value->host = g_strdup(host);
+        chan->value->port = g_strdup(port);
+        chan->value->family = g_strdup(inet_strfamily(item->info->paddr.sa_family));
+
+        chan->value->connection_id = item->info->connection_id;
+        chan->value->channel_type = item->info->type;
+        chan->value->channel_id = item->info->id;
+        chan->value->tls = item->info->flags & SPICE_CHANNEL_EVENT_FLAG_TLS;
+
+       /* XXX: waiting for the qapi to support GSList */
+        if (!cur_item) {
+            head = cur_item = chan;
+        } else {
+            cur_item->next = chan;
+            cur_item = chan;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return head;
 }
 
-void do_info_spice_print(Monitor *mon, const QObject *data)
-{
-    QDict *server;
-    QList *channels;
-    const char *host;
-    int port;
-
-    server = qobject_to_qdict(data);
-    if (qdict_get_bool(server, "enabled") == 0) {
-        monitor_printf(mon, "Server: disabled\n");
-        return;
-    }
-
-    monitor_printf(mon, "Server:\n");
-    host = qdict_get_str(server, "host");
-    port = qdict_get_try_int(server, "port", -1);
-    if (port != -1) {
-        monitor_printf(mon, "     address: %s:%d\n", host, port);
-    }
-    port = qdict_get_try_int(server, "tls-port", -1);
-    if (port != -1) {
-        monitor_printf(mon, "     address: %s:%d [tls]\n", host, port);
-    }
-    monitor_printf(mon, "        auth: %s\n", qdict_get_str(server, "auth"));
-    monitor_printf(mon, "    compiled: %s\n",
-                   qdict_get_str(server, "compiled-version"));
-
-    channels = qdict_get_qlist(server, "channels");
-    if (qlist_empty(channels)) {
-        monitor_printf(mon, "Channels: none\n");
-    } else {
-        qlist_iter(channels, info_spice_iter, mon);
-    }
-}
-
-void do_info_spice(Monitor *mon, QObject **ret_data)
+SpiceInfo *qmp_query_spice(Error **errp)
 {
     QemuOpts *opts = QTAILQ_FIRST(&qemu_spice_opts.head);
-    QDict *server;
-    QList *clist;
-    const char *addr;
     int port, tls_port;
+    const char *addr;
+    SpiceInfo *info;
     char version_string[20]; /* 12 = |255.255.255\0| is the max */
 
+    info = g_malloc0(sizeof(*info));
+
     if (!spice_server) {
-        *ret_data = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'enabled': false }");
-        return;
+        info->enabled = false;
+        return info;
     }
 
+    info->enabled = true;
+
     addr = qemu_opt_get(opts, "addr");
     port = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "port", 0);
     tls_port = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "tls-port", 0);
-    clist = channel_list_get();
 
-    server = qdict_new();
-    qdict_put(server, "enabled", qbool_from_int(true));
-    qdict_put(server, "auth", qstring_from_str(auth));
-    qdict_put(server, "host", qstring_from_str(addr ? addr : "0.0.0.0"));
+    info->has_auth = true;
+    info->auth = g_strdup(auth);
+
+    info->has_host = true;
+    info->host = g_strdup(addr ? addr : "0.0.0.0");
+
+    info->has_compiled_version = true;
     snprintf(version_string, sizeof(version_string), "%d.%d.%d",
              (SPICE_SERVER_VERSION & 0xff0000) >> 16,
              (SPICE_SERVER_VERSION & 0xff00) >> 8,
              SPICE_SERVER_VERSION & 0xff);
-    qdict_put(server, "compiled-version", qstring_from_str(version_string));
+    info->compiled_version = g_strdup(version_string);
+
     if (port) {
-        qdict_put(server, "port", qint_from_int(port));
+        info->has_port = true;
+        info->port = port;
     }
     if (tls_port) {
-        qdict_put(server, "tls-port", qint_from_int(tls_port));
-    }
-    if (clist) {
-        qdict_put(server, "channels", clist);
+        info->has_tls_port = true;
+        info->tls_port = tls_port;
     }
 
-    *ret_data = QOBJECT(server);
+    /* for compatibility with the original command */
+    info->has_channels = true;
+    info->channels = qmp_query_spice_channels();
+
+    return info;
 }
 
 static void migration_state_notifier(Notifier *notifier, void *data)