On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 06:19:21PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > As you've known, vhd-util and qemu-img both provide the capacity for > resizing the original disk,
.. although they only resize the container, not the contents which is what virt-resize does. So these tools are not really comparable. > but why is virt-resize designed to involve > two disks, not only original disk? Is there any concern? Is it > possible that only one original disk is involved in virt-resize? I'm guessing this question is why virt-resize doesn't work on disk images in-place. This I hope is answered in the FAQ here: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#why-doesnt-virt-resize-work-on-the-disk-image-in-place Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
