diff --git a/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.12.7-r1.ebuild b/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.12.7-r1.ebuild
index c5145606a233e..cecdd6ec20ee4 100644
--- a/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.12.7-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.12.7-r1.ebuild
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ DEPEND="
 	smartcard? ( app-emulation/qemu[smartcard] )
 	${RDEPEND}"
 
+# Prevent sandbox violations, bug #586560
+# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581836
+addpredict /dev
+
 python_check_deps() {
 	has_version ">=dev-python/pyparsing-1.5.6-r2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 	has_version "dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
diff --git a/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.13.1-r2.ebuild b/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.13.1-r2.ebuild
index 960c1c9e8c193..80cf44adb644d 100644
--- a/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.13.1-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/spice/spice-0.13.1-r2.ebuild
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ DEPEND="
 	smartcard? ( app-emulation/qemu[smartcard] )
 	${RDEPEND}"
 
+# Prevent sandbox violations, bug #586560
+# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581836
+addpredict /dev
+
 python_check_deps() {
 	has_version ">=dev-python/pyparsing-1.5.6-r2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 	has_version "dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
diff --git a/app-emulation/spice/spice-9999.ebuild b/app-emulation/spice/spice-9999.ebuild
index f93c735ded1cf..03693f6d7c123 100644
--- a/app-emulation/spice/spice-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/spice/spice-9999.ebuild
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ DEPEND="
 	smartcard? ( app-emulation/qemu[smartcard] )
 	${RDEPEND}"
 
+# Prevent sandbox violations, bug #586560
+# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581836
+addpredict /dev
+
 python_check_deps() {
 	has_version ">=dev-python/pyparsing-1.5.6-r2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 	has_version "dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"