I think investigation needs to start from a qemu performance perspective. It may be that uvtool needs to tell libvirt to tell qemu to do something differently, but in that case I need to know what.
** Project changed: uvtool => qemu ** Project changed: qemu => qemu (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322302 Title: local provider is very slow to tranistion from agent-status: pending Status in “qemu” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: ubuntu@trusty-installer:~$ juju version 1.18.3-trusty-amd64 ubuntu@trusty-installer:~$ dpkg -l juju-core ii juju-core 1.18.3-0ubuntu1~1 amd64 Juju is devops distilled - client ubuntu@trusty-installer:~$ dpkg -l juju-local ii juju-local 1.18.3-0ubuntu1~1 all dependency package for the Juju local provider juju add-machine --constraints "mem=3G cpu-cores=3 root-disk=20G" has a huge delay in agent-state pending especially when the kvm is up and running in fairly short order kvm comes up in ~1 minutes, agent-status is stuck in pending for at least another 8-9 minutes after that <hazmat> danwest, its normally async to actually coming up based on pinger/heartbeat.. but that length of time sounds like a worst case.. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1322302/+subscriptions