diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py
index a34a20619f0..47612a6db8c 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py
@@ -9242,7 +9242,7 @@ def test_unquiesce(self, mock_has_min_version):
 
     def test_create_snapshot_metadata(self):
         base = objects.ImageMeta.from_dict(
-            {'disk_format': 'raw'})
+            {'disk_format': 'qcow2'})
         instance_data = {'kernel_id': 'kernel',
                     'project_id': 'prj_id',
                     'ramdisk_id': 'ram_id',
@@ -9274,10 +9274,12 @@ def test_create_snapshot_metadata(self):
             {'disk_format': 'ami',
              'container_format': 'test_container'})
         expected['properties']['os_type'] = instance['os_type']
-        expected['disk_format'] = base.disk_format
+        # The disk_format of the snapshot should be the *actual* format of the
+        # thing we upload, regardless of what type of image we booted from.
+        expected['disk_format'] = img_fmt
         expected['container_format'] = base.container_format
         ret = drvr._create_snapshot_metadata(base, instance, img_fmt, snp_name)
-        self.assertEqual(ret, expected)
+        self.assertEqual(expected, ret)
 
     def test_get_volume_driver(self):
         conn = libvirt_driver.LibvirtDriver(fake.FakeVirtAPI(), False)
@@ -28778,7 +28780,8 @@ def test_ami(self):
           utils.get_system_metadata_from_image(
             {'disk_format': 'ami'})
 
-        self._test_snapshot(disk_format='ami')
+        # If we're uploading a qcow2, we must set the disk_format as such
+        self._test_snapshot(disk_format='qcow2')
 
     @mock.patch('nova.virt.libvirt.utils.get_disk_type_from_path',
                 new=mock.Mock(return_value=None))
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/virt/test_virt_drivers.py b/nova/tests/unit/virt/test_virt_drivers.py
index ed9f1e3822d..802ea4f027f 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/virt/test_virt_drivers.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/virt/test_virt_drivers.py
@@ -838,6 +838,11 @@ def setUp(self):
         # since we don't care about it.
         self.stub_out('os_vif.unplug', lambda a, kw: None)
         self.stub_out('nova.compute.utils.get_machine_ips', lambda: [])
+        self.stub_out('nova.virt.libvirt.utils.get_disk_size',
+                      lambda *a, **k: 123456)
+        self.stub_out('nova.virt.libvirt.utils.get_disk_backing_file',
+                      lambda *a, **k: None)
+        self.stub_out('nova.privsep.path.chown', lambda *a, **k: None)
 
     def test_init_host_image_type_rbd_force_raw_images_true(self):
         CONF.set_override('images_type', 'rbd', group='libvirt')
diff --git a/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py b/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py
index e8bfffc3fa9..b88103862d6 100644
--- a/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py
+++ b/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py
@@ -2938,11 +2938,7 @@ def _create_snapshot_metadata(self, image_meta, instance,
         if instance.os_type:
             metadata['properties']['os_type'] = instance.os_type
 
-        # NOTE(vish): glance forces ami disk format to be ami
-        if image_meta.disk_format == 'ami':
-            metadata['disk_format'] = 'ami'
-        else:
-            metadata['disk_format'] = img_fmt
+        metadata['disk_format'] = img_fmt
 
         if image_meta.obj_attr_is_set("container_format"):
             metadata['container_format'] = image_meta.container_format