Why does volume creation from image fail with error "qemu-img: error writing zeroes at sector 0" ?

Issue

• Volume creation from image fails with error "qemu-img: error writing zeroes at sector 0' in logs .

# cinder create --display-name rh-volume01 10 --image-id 0eaf03f7-3329-424f-881d-b038be86b8f8

• Instance creation with new volume created from image fails due to "Failure prepping block device" .
• Cinder volume creation from image fails with following error in logs .

2015-02-20 18:33:45.841 4784 TRACE oslo.messaging.rpc.dispatcher ImageCopyFailure: Failed to copy image to volume: qemu-img: error writing zeroes at sector 0: Invalid argument