diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStorageProcessor.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStorageProcessor.java
index 52740cead278..070a03a23af4 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStorageProcessor.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStorageProcessor.java
@@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ private void convertTheBaseFileToSnapshot(KVMPhysicalDisk baseFile, String snaps
         QemuImgFile destFile = new QemuImgFile(snapshotPath);
         destFile.setFormat(PhysicalDiskFormat.QCOW2);
 
-        QemuImg q = new QemuImg(wait);
+        QemuImg q = new QemuImg(wait * 1000L);
         q.convert(srcFile, destFile, options, qemuObjects, qemuImageOpts, null, true);
     }
 
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java
index bc123b294ce7..48423b7b60b8 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public class QemuImg {
     /* The qemu-img binary. We expect this to be in $PATH */
     public String _qemuImgPath = "qemu-img";
     private String cloudQemuImgPath = "cloud-qemu-img";
-    private int timeout;
+    private long timeout;
     private boolean skipZero = false;
     private boolean noCache = false;
     private long version;
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ public static PreallocationType getPreallocationType(final Storage.ProvisioningT
      * @param skipZeroIfSupported Don't write zeroes to target device during convert, if supported by qemu-img
      * @param noCache Ensure we flush writes to target disk (useful for block device targets)
      */
-    public QemuImg(final int timeout, final boolean skipZeroIfSupported, final boolean noCache) throws LibvirtException {
+    public QemuImg(final long timeout, final boolean skipZeroIfSupported, final boolean noCache) throws LibvirtException {
         if (skipZeroIfSupported) {
             final Script s = new Script(_qemuImgPath, timeout);
             s.add("--help");
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public QemuImg(final int timeout, final boolean skipZeroIfSupported, final boole
      * @param timeout
      *            The timeout of scripts executed by this QemuImg object.
      */
-    public QemuImg(final int timeout) throws LibvirtException, QemuImgException {
+    public QemuImg(final long timeout) throws LibvirtException, QemuImgException {
         this(timeout, false, false);
     }