diff --git a/plugins/libvirt/kvm_mem b/plugins/libvirt/kvm_mem
index eaa86fda..2ada1da1 100755
--- a/plugins/libvirt/kvm_mem
+++ b/plugins/libvirt/kvm_mem
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8
 #
@@ -25,18 +25,13 @@ def config(vm_names):
 graph_vlabel Bytes
 graph_category virtualization
 graph_info This graph shows the current amount of memory used by virtual machines
-graph_args --base 1024
-    """
-    print base_config
-    draw = "AREA"
+graph_args --base 1024 -l 0"""
+    print(base_config)
     for vm in vm_names:
-        print "%s_mem.label %s" % (vm, vm)
-        print "%s_mem.type GAUGE" % vm
-        if draw == 'AREA':
-            print "%s_mem.min 0" % vm
-        print "%s_mem.draw %s" % (vm, draw)
-        print "%s_mem.info memory used by virtual machine %s" % (vm, vm)
-	draw = "STACK"
+        print("%s_mem.label %s" % (vm, vm))
+        print("%s_mem.type GAUGE" % vm)
+        print("%s_mem.draw %s" % (vm, "AREASTACK"))
+        print("%s_mem.info memory used by virtual machine %s" % (vm, vm))
 
 
 def clean_vm_name(vm_name):
@@ -69,12 +64,12 @@ def fetch(vms):
             cmdline = open("/proc/%s/cmdline" % pid, "r")
             amount = re.sub(r"^.*-m\x00(.*)\x00-smp.*$",r"\1", cmdline.readline())
             amount = int(amount) * 1024 * 1024
-            print "%s_mem.value %s" % (vms[pid], amount)
+            print("%s_mem.value %s" % (vms[pid], amount))
         except:
             cmdline = open("/proc/%s/cmdline" % pid, "r")
             amount = re.sub(r"^.*-m\x00(\d+).*$",r"\1", cmdline.readline())
             amount = int(amount) * 1024 * 1024
-            print "%s_mem.value %s" % (vms[pid], amount)
+            print("%s_mem.value %s" % (vms[pid], amount))
 
 def detect_kvm():
     ''' Check if kvm is installed
@@ -97,16 +92,16 @@ def list_pids():
     ''' Find the pid of kvm processes
     @return a list of pids from running kvm
     '''
-    pid = Popen("pidof qemu-kvm qemu-system-x86_64 kvm", shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
+    pid = Popen("pidof qemu-kvm qemu-system-x86_64 kvm", shell=True, stdout=PIPE, text=True)
     return pid.communicate()[0].split()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     if len(sys.argv) > 1:
         if sys.argv[1] in ['autoconf', 'detect']:
             if detect_kvm():
-                print "yes"
+                print("yes")
             else:
-                print "no"
+                print("no")
         elif sys.argv[1] == "config":
             config(find_vm_names(list_pids()).values())
         else: