It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some
methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me on a
production server.

I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe
"virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to do this?

- Jussi Hirvi

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some
> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me on a
> production server.
>
> I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe
> "virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to do this?
>

If you're using LVM volumes to store guest disks, then you can do
"lvextend" in the host.

And then do necessary steps in the guest, to resize the partitions/filesystems.

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On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some
>> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me
>> on a production server.
>>
>> I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe
>> "virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to
>> do this?
>
> If you're using LVM volumes to store guest disks, then you can do
> "lvextend" in the host.

Nope, I use disk images (sparse).

> And then do necessary steps in the guest, to resize the
> partitions/filesystems.

Ok, looks like this can not be done all in one step.

- Jussi

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On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some
>> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me
>> on a production server.
>>
>> I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe
>> "virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to
>> do this?
>
> If you're using LVM volumes to store guest disks, then you can do
> "lvextend" in the host.

Nope, I use disk images (sparse).

> And then do necessary steps in the guest, to resize the
> partitions/filesystems.

Ok, looks like this can not be done all in one step.

- Jussi

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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:52:43PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> >> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some
> >> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me
> >> on a production server.
> >>
> >> I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe
> >> "virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to
> >> do this?
> >
> > If you're using LVM volumes to store guest disks, then you can do
> > "lvextend" in the host.
>
> Nope, I use disk images (sparse).
>
> > And then do necessary steps in the guest, to resize the
> > partitions/filesystems.
>
> Ok, looks like this can not be done all in one step.
>

It really depends how the image is used? Is it mapped as a partition,
and used as is? or is it partitioned in the guest?

Anyway, we're talking about the _raw_ disk image here.. you obviously need
to resize the (possible partitions and) filesystem in it aswell.

These partition/filesystem resizing steps can be made from dom0, or from the guest,
depending what you prefer.

-- Pasi

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