Comment 1 for bug 1613451

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I cannot reproduce this on Xenial. In a KVM, I did "sudo apt install qemu" which provided /etc/init.d/qemu-kvm and "systemctl status qemu-kvm" reported this as started. This was provided by the qemu-system-common package. Then I did "sudo apt purge qemu-system-common". This worked, /etc/init.d/qemu-kvm is gone, and "systemctl status qemu-kvm" reports that the service is gone.

Since there does not seem to be a bug here, I'm marking this as Invalid.

If you still believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, provide steps to reproduce, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu, and then change the bug status back to New.