I accidentally didn't pay enough attention trying to get qemu-utils on the server.
TL;DR: DONT INSTALL QEMU-UTILS in 4.4
I installed pve from proxmox-ve_4.4-eb2d6f1e-2.iso
# pveversion
pve-manager/4.4-5/c43015a5 (running kernel: 4.4.19-1-pve)
# apt-get install qemu-utils
Reading package...
