There's no need to use qemu-img first to create the volume as yo ucan do this with virt-install directly (also "--os-type" is deprecated and has no use.) virt-install \ --virt-type kvm \ --name rhel86-cloud-image \ --ram 2048 \ --vcpus 2 \ --disk rhel88.qcow2,format=qcow2,size=10 \ --location rhel-8.6-x86_64-boot.iso \ --network=bridge:virbr0 \ --graphics vnc,listen=127.0.0.1 \ --noautoconsole \ --os-variant rhel8.6 \ Reported by: rhn-support-ssigwald https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/17.0/html/creating_and_managing_images/assembly_managing-images_osp#annotations:3e8dce46-0f10-4649-9d9d-51f50e86d139