diff --git a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/start_compute.yml b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/start_compute.yml
index 091b164cc6..1ba3c47c80 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/start_compute.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/start_compute.yml
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
       - "nova_compute:/var/lib/nova/"
       - "nova_libvirt_qemu:/etc/libvirt/qemu"
   register: start_nova_libvirt_container
-  # NOTE(Jeffrey4l): retry 1 to remove nova_libvirt container because when
+  # NOTE(Jeffrey4l): retry 5 to remove nova_libvirt container because when
   # guests running, nova_libvirt will raise error even though it is removed.
-  retries: 1
+  retries: 5
   until: start_nova_libvirt_container|success
   when: inventory_hostname in groups['compute']