Testing qemu 2.1 arm64 support
qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -machine virt -kernel trusty-server-cloudimg-arm64-vmlinuz-generic -append 'root=/dev/vda1 rw rootwait mem=1024M console=ttyAMA0,38400n8 init=/usr/lib/cloud-init/uncloud-init ds=nocloud ubuntu-pass=ubuntu' -drive if=none,id=image,file=trusty-server-cloudimg-arm64-disk1.img -netdev user,id=user0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=user0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=image
qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -machine virt -kernel trusty-server-cloudimg-arm64-vmlinuz-generic -append 'root=/dev/vda1 rw rootwait mem=1024M console=ttyAMA0,38400n8 init=/usr/lib/cloud-init/uncloud-init ds=nocloud' -drive if=none,id=image,file=trusty-server-cloudimg-arm64-disk1.img -netdev user,id=user0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=user0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=image
[A Quick'n'Dirty Set-up of an Aarch64 Ubuntu 14.04 VM with QEMU]