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

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