We don't have a nice way to support this just yet. This may (or may not) be supported in the future once we figure out what to do with image inspections/operations. I'll mark it as invalid for now.
** Changed in: glance Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to Glance. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315014 Title: when using --size to create a qcow2 image image is creates it as raw but reported as qcow2 Status in OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance): Won't Fix Bug description: I tried creating 20GB qcow2 image using --size and the image Here are the problems: 1. the image is not created with the selected size 2. the image is reported as qcow2 in glance-list but qemu-img shows it as raw (since the source image copied is a raw image we seem to be taking that parameter but reporting qcow2). This is create-image from an remote image which is raw: [root@orange-vdsf images(keystone_admin)]# glance image-create --name dafna_zise1 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --copy-from http://download.eng.tlv.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-6/6.4/Appliance/rhel-client-x86_64-ec2-starter-6.4_20130130.0-1-sda.raw --size 20480000 +------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +------------------+--------------------------------------+ | checksum | None | | container_format | bare | | created_at | 2014-05-01T09:53:04 | | deleted | False | | deleted_at | None | | disk_format | qcow2 | | id | 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 | | is_public | False | | min_disk | 0 | | min_ram | 0 | | name | dafna_zise1 | | owner | 5502ab8e099843cfa39df71b3037ccd6 | | protected | False | | size | 20480000 | | status | queued | | updated_at | 2014-05-01T09:53:04 | +------------------+--------------------------------------+ [root@orange-vdsf images(keystone_admin)]# glance image-list --human +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | ID | Name | Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Status | +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | | 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 | dafna_zise1 | qcow2 | bare | 19.5MB | saving | | +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ [root@orange-vdsf images(keystone_admin)]# glance image-list --human +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | ID | Name | Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Status | +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | | 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 | dafna_zise1 | qcow2 | bare | 6GB | active | | +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ [root@orange-vdsf images(keystone_admin)]# qemu-img info 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 image: 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 file format: raw virtual size: 6.0G (6442451456 bytes) disk size: 6.0G As you can see, the source image was a raw 6GB image. I created a qcow2 image from this image and tried giving it a 20GB size. the image is created as raw but reported as qcow To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1315014/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp