Glance Image Not Discovered in OpenStack

Problem

Image is copied under the Glanceimage library path but is not discovered in OpenStack.

Environment

  • Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All Versions

  • Glance

Cause

The image is in a format that is not recognized by the qemu-img info command.

Resolution

  1. Run qemu-img info command on the image

# qemu-img info WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2
image: WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2
file format: raw
virtual size: 10.0G (10685723648 bytes)
disk size: 10.0G

  1. Backup the original image (optional)

# cp WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2 WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2.bak

  1. Rename the image file to have one of the following extensions: .raw, .img, .dat, .bin

# mv WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2 WinServer.2016.Gold.img


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