Todd, thank you for your post and advise. It helped me to fix the same problem with one of the virtual disks that became corrupted after ubuntu host release upgrade to 14.0.1 LTS I tried first to install qemu 2.1.2 from sources but without any improvement. qemu 1.7.2 could convert to raw img format and my VM is up and running now. Seems like your work around is the only available on the Internet so thanks a lot :)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1354167 Title: On VM restart: Could not open 'poppy.qcow2': Could not read snapshots: File too large Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I'm unable to restart a VM. virt-manager is giving me: Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/poppy.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio- disk0,format=qcow2: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/poppy.qcow2: Could not read snapshots: File too large From the command line trying to check the image also gives me: qemu-img check poppy.qcow2 qemu-img: Could not open 'poppy.qcow2': Could not read snapshots: File too large This bug appears with both the default install of qemu for ubuntu 14.04: qemu-img version 2.0.0, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard And the latest version. qemu-img version 2.1.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard Host: Dual E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz 32GB Memory 4TB Disk space (2.1TB Free) Host OS: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64bit Guest: Ubuntu 14.04 64bit Storage Size: 500gb To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1354167/+subscriptions