Description of problem: Creating a vm from a "standard-size" image like a pre-existing centos or a just-uploaded rhel8 is failing with error: "nova.exception.ImageUnacceptable: Image e6b12b3b-936d-43ec-bb73-aab6e9b4c433 is unacceptable: Image is not raw format" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHOSP 16.1.6 + Ceph as backend Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a vm from an image: openstack server create --flavor myflavor --image e6b12b3b-936d-43ec-bb73-aab6e9b4c433 --nic none --availablility-zone myzone test-redhat Actual results: 2023-07-04 09:36:25.566 7 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 9bdb1f85-4db9-4b90-a2b3-cb3b0201fd2a] nova.exception.ImageUnacceptable: Image e6b12b3b-936d-43ec-bb73-aab6e9b4c433 is unacceptable: Image is not raw format Additional info: - creating volumes from images is working 100% of time - creating vms from volumes is working without any issue - creating vms from small images like a cirros is working