The qcow images used in the instances directory are copy-on-write images. If you modified the original command, you may be getting a copy-on-write image as well. That is the only reason i can think that it wouldn't boot. QCow2 images should boot fine as long as they don't have a backing file. Perhaps change the snapshot command to still create a raw image but then convert it into a qcow2 before uploading it?

Vish

On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Edouard Thuleau wrote:

New question #167301 on OpenStack Compute (nova): https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+q...

When I create an image from a running instance with the Libvirt driver, nova-compute create a copy of the QCOW2 running image in RAW image format. Why it converts the QCOW2 image to RAW image ?

I try to change the qemu-img convert command (in method 'snapshot' of class 'LibvirtConnection') to create snapshot in QCOW2 format. The image is correctly created but nova fails to boot the new image. I can see in nova-compute logs a warning about it cannot inject key into image. I check if I can manually boot with KVM this image and it works nicely.

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Can you provide the relevant nova-compute logs? I suspect the way we're currently injecting information into disks does not work with non-raw image, but failure information would help with debugging. What you're doing is possible, so hopefully it's just a matter of figuring out exactly what is failing and going from there.

You can go ahead and make a bug and propose it. Probably it should be a flag, only because people may want their snapshots as raw images for compatibility with other hypervisors.

Vish

On Aug 10, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Edouard Thuleau wrote:

Question #167301 on OpenStack Compute (nova) changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+q...

Status: Answered => Open

Edouard Thuleau is still having a problem: Ok, I made a mistake. It works nicely if I change the command 'qemu-img convert' by : qemu_img_cmd = (FLAGS.qemu_img, 'convert', '-f', 'qcow2', '-O', 'qcow2', '-s', snapshot_name, disk_path, out_path) in method 'snapshot' of class 'LibvirtConnection'. The new converted QCow2 file doesn't depend on the backing file.

Do you think it's interesting to implement that. How I can propose this patch ? Through a wishlist bug ?

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