diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index ef9f49a6..a9ba77ce 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ EODESCR
 	description => "Emulated CPU type.",
 	type => 'string',
 	enum => [ qw(486 athlon pentium pentium2 pentium3 coreduo core2duo kvm32 kvm64 qemu32 qemu64 phenom Conroe Penryn Nehalem Westmere SandyBridge Haswell Opteron_G1 Opteron_G2 Opteron_G3 Opteron_G4 Opteron_G5 host) ],
-	default => 'qemu64',
+	default => 'kvm64',
     },
     parent => get_standard_option('pve-snapshot-name', {
 	optional => 1,