If its a problem of libvirt then no VM should be created But I can create small image upto 4GB diskspace. This means it has some link with "disk_available_least" in below table nova hypervisor-show silpixa00397258 +---------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +---------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | cpu_info_arch | x86_64 | | cpu_info_features | ["pge", "avx", "xsaveopt", "clflush", | | | "sep", "rtm", "tsc_adjust", "vme", | | | "dtes64", "invpcid", "msr", "sse", | | | "xsave", "smap", "vmx", "erms", "xtpr", | | | "cmov", "hle", "smep", "nx", "est", | | | "pat", "monitor", "smx", "pbe", "lm", | | | "tsc", "adx", "3dnowprefetch", "fpu", | | | "syscall", "tm", "sse4.1", "fxsr", | | | "sse4.2", "pclmuldq", "pcid", "pae", | | | "pni", "tsc-deadline", "mmx", "osxsave", | | | "cx8", "mce", "de", "tm2", "ht", "dca", | | | "lahf_lm", "abm", "rdseed", "popcnt", | | | "mca", "pdpe1gb", "apic", "fsgsbase", | | | "f16c", "pse", "ds", "invtsc", | | | "mbm_total", "aes", "avx2", "sse2", | | | "ss", "ds_cpl", "arat", "bmi1", "bmi2", | | | "acpi", "ssse3", "rdtscp", "mbm_local", | | | "cmt", "cx16", "pse36", "mtrr", "movbe", | | | "pdcm", "fma", "rdrand", "x2apic"] | | cpu_info_model | Broadwell | | cpu_info_topology_cells | 2 | | cpu_info_topology_cores | 22 | | cpu_info_topology_sockets | 1 | | cpu_info_topology_threads | 2 | | cpu_info_vendor | Intel | | current_workload | 0 | | disk_available_least | 4 | | free_disk_gb | 271 | | free_ram_mb | 49461 | | host_ip | 10.237.222.40 | | hypervisor_hostname | silpixa00397258 | | hypervisor_type | QEMU | | hypervisor_version | 2008000 | | id | 1 | | local_gb | 394 | | local_gb_used | 182 | | memory_mb | 64309 | | memory_mb_used | 27790 | | running_vms | 4 | | service_disabled_reason | None | | service_host | silpixa00397258 | | service_id | 11 | | state | up | | status | enabled | | vcpus | 88 | | vcpus_used | 8 | +---------------------------+------------------------------------------+