Marking this as confirmed. I was able to replicate this with virtinst, but not with generic KVM. I believe that this is related to the VNC options:
Here is the KVM config used by virsh: /usr/bin/kvm-spice \ -name selftest \ -S -M pc-1.2 \ -enable-kvm \ -m 1024 \ -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 \ -uuid 48f92f8b-7eaf-46c0-e74a-41b12e716cbf \ -no-user-config \ -nodefaults \ -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/home/ben/.config/libvirt/qemu/lib/selftest.monitor,server,nowait \ -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \ -rtc base=utc \ -no-shutdown \ -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 \ -drive file=/work/images/raring-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2 \ -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \ -netdev user,id=hostnet0 \ -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:72:26:91,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \ -chardev pty,id=charserial0 \ -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 \ -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 \ -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1122245 Title: booting from a cloud image hangs until virsh console is used To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1122245/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs