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Glance Image Not Discovered in OpenStack

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Problem

Image is copied under the Glance image 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
  2. Backup the original image (optional)
    # cp WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2 WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2.bak
  3. Rename the image file to have one of the following extensions: .raw, .img, .dat, .bin
    # mv WinServer.2016.Gold.qcow2 WinServer.2016.Gold.img