Our current deployment has glance-direct enabled [1] However, because our standard procedure doesn't include the shared file system on the controller nodes, we should disable it by default for DCN deployments. If the image is on a web server the `glance image-create-via-import` command, which automatically converts the QCOW2 image to RAW format, works with the ‘web-download’ method. It will continue to work if glance-direct is disabled. Since our documentation [2] already states that there's a common filesystem requirement for 'glance-direct', that it's a bug that we enable it. [1] [root central-controller0-2 ~]# podman exec glance_api cat /etc/glance/glance-api.conf | grep -v \# | grep direct show_image_direct_url=True enabled_import_methods=[glance-direct,web-download,copy-image] [root central-controller0-2 ~]# [2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.0/html/instances_and_images_ guide/ch-image-service#section-import-image 1.2.4.2