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...> qemu-img 'convert' '-p' '-n' '-f' 'qcow2' '-O' 'raw' '/var/tmp/v2vovle834c2.qcow2' '/var/tmp/glance.hzY7jr/sda' Assuming that it hasn't run out of space on /var/tmp, it's probably doing stuff here, just slowly or lumpily. Since qemu-img creates sparseness, not writing to the output file (for short-ish periods) is expected, since it will be skipping over holes. You might want to attach strace to qemu-img and see if it is making system calls. > If the backend is set to libvirt > It hangs inspecting the over...