I have a fix proposed for a pretty old bug (1675791 [1]). This originally came up because of a scenario where an admin shelves a server and then the owner of the shelved server cannot unshelve it since they do not have access to the shelve snapshot image. The same is true for normal snapshot and backup operations though, see this proposed spec for Stein [2]. It also came up during the cross-cell resize spec review [3] since that solution depends on snapshot to get the root disk from one cell to another. In a nutshell, when creating a snapshot now, the compute API will check if the project creating the snapshot is the same as the project owner of the server. If not, the image is created with visibility=shared and the project owner of the instance is granted member access to the image, which allows them to GET the image directly via the ID, but not list it by default (the tenant user has to accept the pending membership for that). I have tested this out in devstack today and everything seems to work well. I am posting this to (a) raise awareness of the bug and proposed fix since it is sort of a behavior change in the createImage/createBackup/shelve APIs and (b) to make sure the glance team is aware and acknowledges this is an OK thing to do, i.e. are there any kind of unforeseen side effects of automatically granting image membership like this (I would think not since the owner of the instance has access to the root disk of the server anyway - it is their data). Also note that some really crusty legacy code in most of the in-tree virt drivers had to be removed (some virt drivers would change the image visibility back to private during the actual data upload to glance) which could mean out of tree drivers have the same issue. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1675791 [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/616843/ [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/616037/3/specs/stein/approved/cross-cell-re... -- Thanks, Matt