I tried that command (on current xenial, you didn't specify an Ubuntu release/package version), and it works fine:
$ machinectl pull-raw https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img Download of https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img complete. SHA256 checksum of https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img is valid. gpg: Signatur vom Mi 28 Okt 2015 03:01:23 CET mittels RSA-Schlüssel ID 7DB87C81 gpg: Korrekte Signatur von "UEC Image Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>" [unbekannt] gpg: WARNUNG: Ein Schlüssel ohne gesichertes Vertrauen wird benutzt! Signature verification succeeded. Unpacking QCOW2 file. Created new local image 'trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1'. Operation completed successfully. Exiting. $ machinectl list-images NAME TYPE RO USAGE CREATED MODIFIED trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1 raw no 815.5M n/a Do 2015-10-29 14:23:43 CET Actually trying to start the container fails due to Okt 29 14:26:25 donald systemd[1]: Starting Container trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1... Okt 29 14:26:25 donald systemd-nspawn[10918]: Failed to open /dev/loop-control: Operation not permitted Okt 29 14:26:25 donald systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn@trusty\x2dserver\x2dcloudimg\x2damd64\x2ddisk1.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE But that sounds like a separate problem. > Failed to convert qcow2 image: No space left on device That sounds like the actual cause for what you see? :-) Can you confirm that it works with enough disk space? ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Summary changed: - machinectl pull-raw fails + machinectl pull-raw fails: No space left on device -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510511 Title: machinectl pull-raw fails: No space left on device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1510511/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
