It's a Cinder bug. steps to reproduce: 1. edit TestVM image property: glance image-update TestVM --property hw_disk_bus=ide --property hw_vif_model=rtl813 root@node-1:~# glance image-show a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac +------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Property 'hw_disk_bus' | ide | | Property 'hw_vif_model' | rtl813 | | Property 'murano_image_info' | {"title": "Murano Demo", "type": "cirros.demo"} | | checksum | 64d7c1cd2b6f60c92c14662941cb7913 | | container_format | bare | | created_at | 2015-03-10T13:31:01 | | deleted | False | | disk_format | qcow2 | | id | a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac | | is_public | True | | min_disk | 0 | | min_ram | 64 | | name | TestVM | | owner | 7f526ceabbd644b79dded1be4c9a54bf | | protected | False | | size | 13167616 | | status | active | | updated_at | 2015-03-10T13:56:25 | +------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ Here we see two new properties: Property 'hw_disk_bus'= ide and Property 'hw_vif_model'=rtl813 2. create a volume from this image root@node-1:~# cinder create 1 --image-id a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac +---------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +---------------------+--------------------------------------+ | attachments | [] | | availability_zone | nova | | bootable | false | | created_at | 2015-03-11T10:48:51.715445 | | display_description | None | | display_name | None | | encrypted | False | | id | d81c849c-ab3d-4b2e-99ec-3d9bd710ed33 | | image_id | a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac | | metadata | {} | | size | 1 | | snapshot_id | None | | source_volid | None | | status | creating | | volume_type | None | +---------------------+--------------------------------------+ root@node-1:~# cinder show d81c849c-ab3d-4b2e-99ec-3d9bd710ed33 +---------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +---------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | attachments |[] | | availability_zone |nova | | bootable |true | | created_at |2015-03-11T10:48:52.000000 | | display_description |None | | display_name |None | | encrypted |False | | id |d81c849c-ab3d-4b2e-99ec-3d9bd710ed33 | | metadata |{} | | os-vol-host-attr:host |rbd:volumes#DEFAULT | | os-vol-mig-status-attr:migstat |None | | os-vol-mig-status-attr:name_id |None | | os-vol-tenant-attr:tenant_id |7f526ceabbd644b79dded1be4c9a54bf | | os-volume-replication:driver_data |None | | os-volume-replication:extended_status |None | | size |1 | | snapshot_id |None | | source_volid |None | | status |available | | volume_image_metadata |{u'container_format': u'bare', u'min_ram': u'64', | | |u'disk_format': u'qcow2', u'image_name': u'TestVM', | | |u'image_id': u'a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac', | | |u'checksum': u'64d7c1cd2b6f60c92c14662941cb7913', | | |u'min_disk': u'0', u'size': u'13167616'} | | volume_type |None | +---------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ As you see here we have no information about image properties 'hw_disk_bus' and 'hw_vif_model' (it should be in dictionary 'volume_image_metadata') expected: volume_image_metadata dict in volume show information should be with dict 'properties' {u'container_format': u'bare', u'min_ram': u'64', u'disk_format': u'qcow2', u'image_name': u'TestVM', u'image_id': u'a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac', u'checksum': u'64d7c1cd2b6f60c92c14662941cb7913', u'min_disk': u'0', u'size': u'13167616', u'properties': {u'hw_vif_model': u'rtl813', u'hw_disk_bus': u'ide'}} Actual: volume_image_metadata dict in volume show information has NO dict 'properties' {u'container_format': u'bare', u'min_ram': u'64', u'disk_format': u'qcow2', u'image_name': u'TestVM', u'image_id': u'a375c384-7bcd-4844-b23e-f3f11a5252ac', u'checksum': u'64d7c1cd2b6f60c92c14662941cb7913', u'min_disk': u'0', u'size': u'13167616'} This properties is needed when we trying to boot instance here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/compute/api.py#L1082-L1087