diff --git a/builder/qemu/step_run.go b/builder/qemu/step_run.go
index 74db88a15..f6697d567 100644
--- a/builder/qemu/step_run.go
+++ b/builder/qemu/step_run.go
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ type stepRun struct {
 }
 
 type qemuArgsTemplateData struct {
-	HTTPIP    string
-	HTTPPort  uint
-	HTTPDir   string
-	OutputDir string
-	Name      string
+	HTTPIP      string
+	HTTPPort    uint
+	HTTPDir     string
+	OutputDir   string
+	Name        string
+	SSHHostPort uint
 }
 
 func (s *stepRun) Run(state multistep.StateBag) multistep.StepAction {
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ func getCommandArgs(bootDrive string, state multistep.StateBag) ([]string, error
 			config.HTTPDir,
 			config.OutputDir,
 			config.VMName,
+			sshHostPort,
 		}
 		newQemuArgs, err := processArgs(config.QemuArgs, &ctx)
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown
index 7f1d9573c..366913189 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown
@@ -253,6 +253,25 @@ builder and not otherwise conflicting with the qemuargs):
 <pre class="prettyprint">
   qemu-system-x86 -m 1024m --no-acpi -netdev user,id=mynet0,hostfwd=hostip:hostport-guestip:guestport -device virtio-net,netdev=mynet0"
 </pre>
+
+You can also use the `SSHHostPort` template variable to produce a packer
+template that can be invoked by `make` in parallel:
+
+``` {.javascript}
+  // ...
+  "qemuargs": [
+          [ "-netdev", "user,hostfwd=tcp::{{ .SSHHostPort }}-:22,id=forward"],
+          [ "-device", "virtio-net,netdev=forward,id=net0"],
+          ...
+        ]
+  // ...
+```
+`make -j 3 my-awesome-packer-templates` spawns 3 packer processes, each of which
+will bind to their own SSH port as determined by each process. This will also
+work with WinRM, just change the port forward in `qemuargs` to map to WinRM's
+default port of `5985` or whatever value you have the service set to listen on.
+
+
 -   `shutdown_command` (string) - The command to use to gracefully shut down the
     machine once all the provisioning is done. By default this is an empty
     string, which tells Packer to just forcefully shut down the machine.