dpkg -l | grep qemu
ii  ipxe-qemu                                   1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-1ubuntu1                      all          PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu
ii  qemu-block-extra:amd64                      1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11                                  amd64        extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils
ii  qemu-kvm                                    1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.14                                  amd64        QEMU Full virtualization
ii  qemu-system-common                          1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11                                  amd64        QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files)
ii  qemu-system-x86                             1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.14                                  amd64        QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
ii  qemu-utils                                  1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11                                  amd64        QEMU utilities



 qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b "$disk.qcow2" ubuntu.qcow2
Formatting 'ubuntu.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=2361393152 backing_file=ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.qcow2 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
csmith@uptown:~/src/server/cloud-init/cloud-init/doc/sources/ovf (master)$ ./make-iso ovf-env.xml.tmpl user-data --output ovftransport.iso
wrote iso to ovftransport.iso
csmith@uptown:~/src/server/cloud-init/cloud-init/doc/sources/ovf (master)$ kvm -drive file=ubuntu.qcow2,if=virtio -cdrom ovftransport.iso \
>         -m 256 -net nic -net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22