Hello,
if the instance is booted from Volume, when you "nova snapshot" in the
glance repo you find a image of 0 bytes, that just contains metadata.
you need to make cinder volume snapshots.
This is a recurring FAQ for the users of our cloud, I wrote something
about it here:
Hi list, I have problems creating snapshots with nova image-create on
Liberty/CentOS72. I have small ubuntu instances provisioned booted
from a cinder volume, I stop the instance, then try to create a
snapshot by issuing:
As documented here: