diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index c6603f55e6a..20d709322c6 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -1878,8 +1878,8 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements Serv
 
             s_logger.debug("Resizing volume: " + path + "," + currentSize + "," + newSize + "," + type + "," + vmInstanceName + "," + shrinkOk);
 
-            /* libvirt doesn't support resizing (C)LVM devices, so we have to do that via a Bash script */
-            if (pool.getType() != StoragePoolType.CLVM) {
+            /* libvirt doesn't support resizing (C)LVM devices, and corrupts QCOW2 in some scenarios, so we have to do these via Bash script */
+            if (pool.getType() != StoragePoolType.CLVM && vol.getFormat() != PhysicalDiskFormat.QCOW2) {
                 s_logger.debug("Volume " + path +  " can be resized by libvirt. Asking libvirt to resize the volume.");
                 try {
                     Connect conn = LibvirtConnection.getConnection();
diff --git a/scripts/storage/qcow2/resizevolume.sh b/scripts/storage/qcow2/resizevolume.sh
index bc763d07211..1e6ffd648f5 100755
--- a/scripts/storage/qcow2/resizevolume.sh
+++ b/scripts/storage/qcow2/resizevolume.sh
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ then
   resizelvm
 elif [ "$ptype" == "QCOW2" ]
 then
-  resizeqcow2
+  notifyqemu
 elif [ "$ptype" == "NOTIFYONLY" ]
 then
   notifyqemu