I ran across a problem recently where attempting to list virtual machines was taking ~45 minutes through virsh and virt-manager; it turns out that the problem was actually due to this patch in libvirt for using RBD fast-diff. In my case the ‘default’ storage pool is actually a link to my RBD storage pool. and that patch checks for the enabled feature but does not check the flags to see if the object-map and fast-diff are invalid
Good News Everyone!
There has been a recent patch that solves this. Unfortunately some distributions have not caught up with it yet (looking at you Ubuntu Bionic). Anyhow, this will hopefully make its way down the various streams that package libvirtd and the problem will be sorted.
